RE: FN-FORUM: Problem uploading files

date posted 23rd January 2006 19:59

> It is set to binary. It tries to upload a file and then WS FTP comes back
with this message:
> !Receive error: Blocking call cancelled.
> When I look on the server I can see the file there but it is 0K (that's a
zero - not ok).
> There's no firewall.

Sometimes Dreamweaver thinks the file you're uploading is older than the one
on the server and decides to ignore the upload thinking you don't want to
overwrite a newer file. And sometimes it asks. Damn annoying - just delete
the server version and do another upload.

I had a similar problem with the zero byte files - as far as I could tell,
the server thought that the file was in use by a site visitor and so an FTP
file lock was in place meaning I couldn't replace the file but ended up
creating zero byte files when I tried - it happened with everything from
small HTML files to PDFs. I've only ever experienced this on one ISP, so it
might be the way they have got their systems set up. I had to wait until
after hours to upload the files, or just keep bashing away when an update
was urgent, slowly working through the list of files (I didn't have the
ability to "switch off" the site to be able to do an update unfortunately).

HTH
Ed


On 23 Jan 2006 20:03:07 -0000, Graeme J Sweeney
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>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Paul Cooper wrote:
>
> > This is driving me mad. For some reason I can't upload image / swf
> > / video files. I can upload HTML files fine. This is happening
> > with both the built in Dreamweaver FTP client and WS FTP. And on
> > more than one machine. Does this mean it could be something network
> > related.=20 Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Bit more detail ......
>
> Are the files not appearing on the server?
>
> Or are they appearing corrupted? If so, set transfer type to binary.
>
> Or just not uploading at all? Any firewalls between you and the server?
>
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