Can't archive site files? - Page 1

Sep 1st, 2014 at 05:37 PM
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paintbrush
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My computer "crashed" while I was working on a site. Most of it is on SDrive, and I was able to recover some files from the computer before wiping the hard drive and re-installing Win7.
I did lose the HTML files for the site along with a few images and font files. Anyway... I'm trying to use the archive option in Direct FTP to grab the site files so I can rebuild my HTML Editor Project.

When I choose to archive the site file folder or individual files, I get this message:
The operation you selected is not available in this context.


:(
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Sep 1st, 2014 at 05:42 PM
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Jo Rice
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Why archive them? Why not just download them to your new project folder? Just curious as you're going to have to unarchive it anyways right? Unless you're trying to get a smaller download, but I can't imagine it being all that much less unless you have a ton of huge graphics or something? Just curious is all :)
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Sep 1st, 2014 at 06:22 PM
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I tried the second download option but I ended up with just the index file and some content from other folders.

The archive option seemed best, since my recovered files are missing some images and all html pages. I'd like to grab the whole site (images, scripts, css, fonts...) so I can re-construct it.

If I download files, will that remove them from the server? Or will itdownload copies? I'd like to keep the live SDrive site intact.
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Sep 2nd, 2014 at 01:21 PM
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I didn't try S-Drive, but the Archive feature works fine on my own server. Just created and downloaded 2 different archives. Works good. Linux shared host server, win7. :cool:
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Sep 2nd, 2014 at 02:34 PM
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Rats! It seems then that archiving is not available for SDrive sites. :(
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Sep 2nd, 2014 at 03:49 PM
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That may be. I just tested with S-Drive (sorry, I had to run to town) and got the same error you did. :P
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Sep 2nd, 2014 at 03:56 PM
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Thanks for testing that, G :)
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Sep 2nd, 2014 at 04:08 PM
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Jo Rice
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When you download files from a live site it's just making copies onto your computer it won't do anything to the live site unless you upload changes so you are fine to download the entire site file by file and/or folder by folder and then you'll have the entire site that way. :)
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Sep 2nd, 2014 at 07:22 PM
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Thanks, Jo Ann. That's what I'll do.
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Sep 2nd, 2014 at 08:09 PM
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Jo Rice
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You're quite welcome, let us know how it goes and good luck on it :)
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