Re: FN-FORUM: Stupid FTP

date posted 9th August 2003 13:19

Hi John,

Use something like the excellent SmartFTP, which will go through and delete
all files and subdirectories in a directory for you before deleting the
directory itself. It really is an awesome FTP client for Windows (that's
free for non-commercial use) and I wouldn't dream of using anything else
these days!

HTH

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sampson" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:00 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM: Stupid FTP


>
>
> OK - probably a stupid question, but I've just dragged my fat carcass
> downstairs after spending half the night looking after my baby boy.
>
> I uploaded the recent version of PHPNuke to my host, just for a play about
> and to see if it as actually usable yet, and not just a mess, got about
half
> way through and changed my mind - mainly because my Dialup dropped and I
was
> too lazy to restart it.
> Now I try to remove the directories it created etc, and all I am getting
is
> error 550 Dir not empty - fair enough, so I look in the directories and
find
> thatthey ARE empty.
> At first I thought it was just FTP playing up - at the time I was using
the
> Command line based one in Windows as I was only sending one or two files,
> but since then I have tried WS_FTP, FileZilla, and AceFTP2, thinking it
may
> be hidden files, but still I cant get them removed.
> Anyone have any ideas?
> I might try reuploading the whole package and remving it again, just
incase
> it was that playing up, but before I waste an hour uploading 14meg of
junk,
> I tohught someone mught have some ideas :)
>
>
>
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