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FTP Help

walkingmac

walkingmac

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Mar 30, 2003
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OK, I am a fan of using the Finder for browsing FTP sites for work and such. Now, one of my new clients' sites is acting dumb. When I access it in the finder some folders (including the one where the actual site is located) is not there. When I use a FTP app (CyberDuck) the folders are right where they should be. Anyone got any idea as to why this is happening?
 
walkingmac said:
OK, I am a fan of using the Finder for browsing FTP sites for work and such. Now, one of my new clients' sites is acting dumb. When I access it in the finder some folders (including the one where the actual site is located) is not there. When I use a FTP app (CyberDuck) the folders are right where they should be. Anyone got any idea as to why this is happening?
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Finder might be hiding the folders because you don't have authorization to use them - that's the only thing I can think of.
 
OK... weird. Random thought after I posted the initial post for how to work around this. Typing in the folder name I was needing after the address. It worked. OK, great, but can someone explain why this is the case?
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Finder might be hiding the folders because you don't have authorization to use them - that's the only thing I can think of.
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Ya... ur right. I looked at the info on that folder in CyberDuck and 'others' weren't checked. But why this even though I used the highest authorization codes?
 
walkingmac said:
OK... weird. Random thought after I posted the initial post for how to work around this. Typing in the folder name I was needing after the address. It worked. OK, great, but can someone explain why this is the case?
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OK, sadly, this only allows me view, but not edit or copy.... thoughts?
 
walkingmac said:
OK, sadly, this only allows me view, but not edit or copy.... thoughts?
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The administrator didn't give you write permissions to those folders, probably - either that or the permissions/user accounts on the FTP server are messed up.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
The administrator didn't give you write permissions to those folders, probably - either that or the permissions/user accounts on the FTP server are messed up.
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I would think that too... except when I use the same pass/user in CyberDuck all is the way it should be. I have complete access to view, copy, and change files in that app and have to do stuff I shouldn't have to do in the Finder with the same (highest level) pass/user. Any more thoughts on this? I would really love to get this right in the Finder.
 
walkingmac said:
I would think that too... except when I use the same pass/user in CyberDuck all is the way it should be. I have complete access to view, copy, and change files in that app and have to do stuff I shouldn't have to do in the Finder with the same (highest level) pass/user. Any more thoughts on this? I would really love to get this right in the Finder.
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Were you aware that the Finder FTP browser does NOT support writing - only reading? Maybe that's your issue.
 
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