Uploading quandry

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When uploading a website without making any changes to many pages or content then many items appear to be re-uploaded even though they have not been altered. There is no change to the server or directory settings at all.

I keep hoping that during the ‘comparing’ of files that the unaltered content will be recognised as such and will not require uploading again.
In particular this is an issue when there is a mov file which is quite large. Is there a way that I can just reference this file and ftp it separately?

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Is there a way that I can just reference this file and ftp it separately?

Usually - how are you using the movie file?

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Hello Dave,

I have it with a quicktime reference movie action with the quicktime extras action as well.

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Post a link to the page and we can look - but it should be doable quite easily with a bit of markup.

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I don’t think I’ve ever had Freeway NOT re-upload everything, not matter how little I change on a page.

Bob

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Its usually the case that freeway compares the files and only uploads those that have been modified. Not sure what your issue there is.

With these troublesome quicktime files I have temporarily removed the content from the boxes in order to allow me to upload the start of modifications to the rest of the website. Its held me up a lot today trying to resolve this.

I’m going to try and rebuild the page from scratch and try try again!

I’m not sure if its just an issue with the server or the file I’m trying to upload. I have used the same set up on other sites with no trouble. The rest of the site uploads no problem.

How does Freeway’s ftp compare to other ftp software?
Is it easy enough just to put a link to the movie file and ftp the actual quicktime movie via transmit to something else?

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Is it easy enough just to put a link to the movie file and ftp the actual quicktime movie via transmit to something else?

It all depends how you have used the movie on the page - as I said - post a link and we can give you some markup to refer an external file(s)

As an workround you could use a much smaller, same named file(s) while constructing/finalising the page and then FTP the real file when complete.

BTW are you using the most recent version of your FW available as updates have addressed this in previous versions.

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Ok I’ll upload things later today and let you know when its up.
Thanks.

I am using Version 5.4.3 (627.1) which I think is the latest for my operating system.
I hope to upgrade to Leopard soon. I have the disk and just need to check that the transition is not too disruptive.

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Thats me managed to get the page uploaded and actually working. Its not perfect but it works.

Not sure if it was maybe just a bandwidth issue when uploading. I would still like to see if there is a way to reference a quicktime file so that it could be uploaded separately but still appear as designed.
With all the abandoned and failed uploads of the movie the previous time then the content of the website itself got a bit dishevelled and I’d like to try and avoid that happening again.

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With all the abandoned and failed uploads of the movie the previous time then the content of the website itself got a bit dishevelled

The advantage here using FW’s built-in upload is that FW tidies it all up for you so there shouldn’t be any ‘mess’ left behind.

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