FTP???

[TheMaster]

my friend gave me this FTP, i tried to open it with internet explorer and it works. then i go and try to open it on flashFXP and it doesn't work. it says there is no file/folder by thet name. and i dont want to download it with explorer.


[glow=black,10,000]PLEASE HELP ME[/glow]

[kazath]

make sure when you copy the link you dont leave any spaces on the end

also try turning of PASV mode

[fantasm]

If the above advice dosn't work just enter the ftp address e.g. 123.456.78.909 and search for the file
using the rest of the path as a guide.;D

[TheMaster]

what do you mean by 123.456.78.909

[DarkPhantom]

That was just an example. Instead of using that ficticious address, use the one your friend gave to you. If you are able to open it with the explorer, try to see if you didn't put a space at the end of the path. Usually, people don't notice they add a space at the end of the path, and then FlashFXP tries to open the path with the space, which doesn't exist. I make that mistake sometimes...or you can do like fantasm said, and go step by step, entering the dirs one by one...


Hope it helped...



[shadow=black,left,300]Let Darkness be your guide...[/shadow]

[fantasm]

It sounds to me that your a real newbie and perhaps don't yet understand how the internet works. The internet is like a book and the addresses are page numbers. there are two types of page numbers alphabetical and numerical one mainly for html (or similar), web sites (example) mysite.com and the other is mainly used for ftp sites or file transfer protacol sites
(example) 198.123.222.124 when you know a little more you will see that the info above is not strictly true. But for the puposes of this answer is good enough. if you follow the good advice of DarkPhantom and use the address bar of explorer this will take you to the ftp site and you can see if the site is up. But most of us like to use an ftp client program such as flashfxp with an explorer like interface. download this program read the help files With the program and the tutorial on this site. I hope this helps.

I have used the book example as a simple to understand tool advanced users I expect you not to be to hard on me for this.

[TheMaster]

i think you have miss understood my problem.
i tried the FTP with: cute FTP, bpftp and flash FXP. the ftp existed the folder didn't then i tried it with explorer and it worked. i started from the parent directory using the path as a router several times and the folder doesn't exist on ftp clients. and i tried it one other computers with flash FXP or cute FTP and it didn't work.

[fantasm]

It sounds to me that it might be a hidden folder. In Flashfxp go to options/ preferences/advanced then make sure that hidden files is checked this will probably solve the problem. at least I hope so.