jalukas
I have just accepted administration of a nonprofit web site. The web hosting service recommended SmartFTP as the FTP client to use, and I am a newbie with it, so be gentle.
My first step was to download the web files to my home computer. I wanted to setup the "file exist" rules so that downloading would only occur if the file was missing or different. However, no matter what I tried, the files were always downloaded.
I started with the default file exist rules, and have trimmed them down to now the only rule I have is:
if destination time=equal and size=equal and transfer=download then skip
yet every file is still transferred every time.
After trying a lot of different things, I noticed that the file timestamps were different. On the SmartFTP server side window, it shows:
modified date: 12/15/2007 22:29 PM
While on the client side window, it shows:
modified date: 12/15/2007 05:29 PM
I don't know if this matters, since the difference in the date may just be in the rendering due to a difference in time zone, but the presentation is still odd; I could understand "22:29 PM" with "17:29 PM", or "10:29 PM" with "05:29 PM", but "22:29 PM" with "05:29 PM" is just weird.
I've clearly got something wrong, but I don't see it. Any help is greatly appreciated.
My first step was to download the web files to my home computer. I wanted to setup the "file exist" rules so that downloading would only occur if the file was missing or different. However, no matter what I tried, the files were always downloaded.
I started with the default file exist rules, and have trimmed them down to now the only rule I have is:
if destination time=equal and size=equal and transfer=download then skip
yet every file is still transferred every time.
After trying a lot of different things, I noticed that the file timestamps were different. On the SmartFTP server side window, it shows:
modified date: 12/15/2007 22:29 PM
While on the client side window, it shows:
modified date: 12/15/2007 05:29 PM
I don't know if this matters, since the difference in the date may just be in the rendering due to a difference in time zone, but the presentation is still odd; I could understand "22:29 PM" with "17:29 PM", or "10:29 PM" with "05:29 PM", but "22:29 PM" with "05:29 PM" is just weird.
I've clearly got something wrong, but I don't see it. Any help is greatly appreciated.