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#241122 01/14/2011 10:16 AM
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I"m slowly making my way through installing the ubb software on mindraven server from my mac. I'm managing to make slow progress but have several questions. I'm moving the files from my mac using ftp. I've tried 2 different ftp graphical clients neither of which appears to be able to copy subdirectories. I've also tried ftp command line from my mac terminal window using mget * a but it isn't getting subdirectories either. I finally gave up and manually copied all subdirectories and files so I believe they're all on the server now in /www/forums
I then tried to run install.php (in install directory) but it doesn't appear to do anything except extract a text copy of the program itself to my mac. I'm running install.php from the CP file manager, not sure if that's correct. So my questions are:
1)anyone know unix command to do recursive copying using ftp?
2)what I might be doing wrong when installing ubb on server using install.php?

thanks!

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OK got the answer to my second question, I needed to run the install.php from a browser window, thus the instructions "browse to" which I didn't take literally. I still would like to know if there's a mac/ftp client that can do recursive file copies.

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Have you tried Filezilla for a ftp client?
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client


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Don't make this hard on yourself. When you copy 1000 files it take WAY longer then 1 file of the same total size because each connection takes time. Just make an archive and upload that.

Make a tar or zip file and copy that over. Tons of info online on how to use this, or you can use the man pages.. man tar or man zip.

Quickly.
tar -czvf backup.tar.gz forum/ to compress
tar -xzvf backup.tar.gz forum/ to extract

Don't mix these up, or you can overwrite your data!


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Originally Posted by Ruben
Have you tried Filezilla for a ftp client?
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client

I did look at Filezilla but there is no version for a mac--that I see anyway.

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Originally Posted by cascadeclimbers
Don't make this hard on yourself. When you copy 1000 files it take WAY longer then 1 file of the same total size because each connection takes time. Just make an archive and upload that.

Make a tar or zip file and copy that over. Tons of info online on how to use this, or you can use the man pages.. man tar or man zip.

Quickly.
tar -czvf backup.tar.gz forum/ to compress
tar -xzvf backup.tar.gz forum/ to extract

Thanks for that.. I will do that next time!

Don't mix these up, or you can overwrite your data!

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That's the link I posted prior also.
I am not a mac person so maybe the two mac versions don't match what he has.


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Well, theres Mac and MacOSX, if they're using a "mac" they're living in the stone age (pre 2002)...


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Originally Posted by Ruben
I am not a mac person so maybe the two mac versions don't match what he has.

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not pre-2002. macosx. unix. tiger I think.. funny I stopped keeping track a while back.

thanks for the info... it's helping as I slowly blunder through this. Our forum is up and running and we're poking through all the settings which are pretty confounding. Images of various types seem to display very inconsistently--my uploaded avatar won't display, Jack's will. I never successfully created a user avatar directory without getting error messages yet Jack managed to upload an avatar. I need a break and will start again in the morning. I haven't done this type of stuff in about 6 years, I've done a lot in the last couple of days and it's turning my brain to mush. I'm forgetting passwords and such.

yet I notice that my avatar uploaded to this forum displays OK.. go figure dat huh?

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yet I managed to upload this avatar.. to this bulletin board... hmmmm.

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I use transmit on my Mac. It can look just like the old WS_FTP or more like Finder, whichever you want to use. Drag and drop works really well with it.

I haven't actually used Finder in years as I prefer Pathfinder, but I thought that you can use it as an FTP client also, mounting the FTP site in a finder pane and then just drag and drop.


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