Re: FN-FORUM: Stupid FTP

date posted 9th August 2003 15:29

...and maybe a URL might help, huh?

http//www.smartftp.com

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Webster" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Stupid FTP


>
> 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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