Moving folders around on FTP

Gone Drinking · 03-07-2009 9:41am #1

I want to move a largish folder (lots of sub folders) on our FTP, from its folder to the root folder but im not having much luck. Whats the best way to go about this?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Dades · 03-07-2009 9:43am

What FTP client are you using?

Shzm · 03-07-2009 9:44am

Right click on it -> move to -> specifiy root dir here?

zAbbo · 03-07-2009 9:44am

I'd copy instead of move!

Does your provider have a web interface for moving/copying files?

I use one called "WebShell4" on Hsphere to do this kind of thing.

jimbo007 · 03-07-2009 9:49am

If you use filezilla (or download for free), go to view -> remote tree view, and drag and drop the folder to its new location in this view

Gone Drinking · 03-07-2009 9:49am

I'm using Filezilla, but i've tried our providers webshell software and it doesn't seem to want to move it

When i try using the webshell software, i select the folder and click move it just says "true" and thats it

jimbo007 · 03-07-2009 9:52am

Gone Drinking wrote: »

I'm using Filezilla, but i've tried our providers webshell software and it doesn't seem to want to move it

When i try using the webshell software, i select the folder and click move it just says "true" and thats it

does it not work using filezilla either?

Gone Drinking · 03-07-2009 9:58am

jimbo007 wrote: »

If you use filezilla (or download for free), go to view -> remote tree view, and drag and drop the folder to its new location in this view

That worked, thanks alot. Wasn't using filezilla long! Didn't even think of drag and drop!

Gone Drinking · 03-07-2009 9:59am

One more question lads, whats the best way to do a backup?

Pablod · 05-07-2009 9:23am

Gone Drinking wrote: »

One more question lads, whats the best way to do a backup?

Depending on who you host with, your host should offer you the facility to take backups of your website or to setup automatic backup schedule.

Moving folders around on FTP

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