Has anyone ever experienced problems with Direct FTP while uploading a large directory structure with about 1500 files? I just noticed that many of my files did not upload and Direct FTP claims that the files could not be found on my hard drive. After checking all the files on the hard drive and making sure that they actually exist I tried to upload again unfortunately with the same result.
Bummer:rolleyes:

Hi Alfred..I can't say that I had that problem. Knock on wood. Make sure your settings are correct. Try to upload about half of them at a time and see what happens. It could be your server can't handle that many. I use CoffeeCup and one called FlashFXP. You can try it at http://www.flashfxp.com/ to see if it is the program causing the problem..I haven't had any problem as I don't upload that many at one time. But I am having all kinds of trouble with their new Blogger Software.. ...Cheers...Keithmj

Thanks for your reply Keith. I normally don't use Direct FTP to upload that many files so I never experienced this. No it's not the server I just uploaded all the files using my every day heave gun FTP program. I don't believe it has anything to do with the settings on Direct FTP since I can upload all the files separately or in smaller batches with out running into any errors, it almost looks like that the deep directory structure has something to do with it.

Hi Alfred,

Were you using 'auto'. This can sometimes be a problem. I've had to upload files as ascii and then reload the binaries in the past.

Richard

Yes I did use auto, the thing is I had no corrupt files, the only time I ever had problems with out is when I load CGI files. Out of 1100 files I had about 600 missing with the notation that the program could not find the files.

Alfred,

The problem you had does sound very similar to mine, except mine was on a smaller scale. With large numbers of files DirectFTP does seem to get confused as to type of file. The main problem I had was with image files, only half of each file was uploaded. In the end I uploaded the files in smaller batches, specifying the type. but I wouldn't like to do that with 1,100 files. Have you tried using CuteFTP or WSFTP?

Richard

Yes Richard my problem did affect mostly image files as far as I can tell. As I stated in a previous post, I don't normally use CoffeeCup FTP for big jobs because of it's lack of features and my other FTP program uploaded all the files without a hitch. I mostly use DirectFTP to quickly upload a file or two while working in HTMLEditor, but otherwise I bring out the big guns. To be fair to CoffeeCup and it's wonderful staff, I don't like to say here what FTP program I normally use, I think DirectFTP just needs a bit of overhauling.