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JeffTucker

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Installing and using FileZilla
Posted: 9 Jul 18, 13:17

FileZilla is a great app to have on your machine, even if you normally use the jAlbum uploader, and it's a freebie.

1. Download the client program and install it: https://filezilla-project.org/
2. Launch it and, from the top menu, choose File, Site Manager, and click the New Site button
3. To add your jalbum.net account, for Protocol, choose SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol
4. For Host, enter yourusername.jalbum.net
5. Leave Port blank.
6. For Logon Type, choose Normal
7. For User, enter your jAlbum username
8. For Password, enter your jAlbum password
9. Click Connect to make sure it's all working

Before doing any uploading, it's best to tell FileZilla to upload only new or changed files

1. From the top menu, choose Edit, Settings
2. Go to Transfers, File exists action, Uploads, and choose Overwrite if source file newer, and click OK

Once you've created your album and are ready to upload it, launch FileZilla and connect to the server.

1. In the right panel in FileZilla, select the directory to which you want to upload your album. If it doesn't exist yet, right-click somewhere in that panel and choose Create directory and enter it.
2. In the left panel, navigate to your album. It will normally be at C:\Users\yourname\Documents\My Albums\projectname\album. It's important that you do not upload the album folder - you want to upload the contents of the album folder.
3. In the left panel, select all the folders and files in album. You can just click in the left panel and hit CTRL-A.
4. Right-click on the highlighted folders and files, and choose Upload.

JeffTucker

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Re: Installing and using FileZilla
Posted: 10 Apr 20, 17:48

in response to: JeffTucker

One quick update to this thread.... I am now using the built-in jAlbum uploader for most of my projects. The only exception is my skin demo site, which is an unusual use-case (multiple linked albums, many pages produced outside of jAlbum, and so on).

The jAlbum uploader is now considerably more robust than it used to be - it is better able to handle poor connections, misconfigured servers, and so on.

It is also faster than using a standalone FTP application like FileZilla, because of its use of a manifest file to keep track of what it has uploaded to the server prior to the current session. Its use of multiple threads also produces faster uploads.

Finally, while FileZilla doesn't provide a good method of removing unneeded files, the jAlbum uploader does, again because of the presence of the manifest file. And it does so automatically, which results in fewer leftover, superfluous files lingering on the server.

In short, you should be using the jAlbum uploader unless you have a very good reason not to do so. If it causes some sort of problem for you, please post about it in the Uploading albums forum section.

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