Hard to navigate forums without sections

[outspoken]

Hey there, to whome it may concern:

consider seperating the forum into categories, such as:

Bugs/Suggestions
FTP
Plugins
General Discussion about TC

etc, etc. with everything thrown together under one category it makes browsing for a new comer very difficult, and also someone who is trying to search for anything in particular that may not appear by keyword search..

Here is a question:

can TC support file attribution changes in ftp? IE: on a *nix system changing 755 to 644 or similar? How can I do this?

Thanks.

[Lefteous]

2outspoken

what about making a poll about seperating the forum into categories?

file attribute change in ftp
menu Files/Change attributes

[outspoken]

Thanks Lefteous, but that does not work.

I get the error:

"Cannot change attributes of remote files!"

and in the ftp log this appears:

SITE chmod 755 "filename.ext"
550 No such file or directory.

so it is sending the command but perhaps the ftpd is not capable of receiving such commands?

[outspoken]

I emailed the system owner to find out if the commands are supported nder that ftpd, they may be switched off in the configuration file (NcFTPD).

Also, I found something strange: I logged in SSH and changed the attributes there, then went back to TC and did a refresh on that directory and the old attributes are showing up. Even when doing an 'alt+shift+enter" to view raw directory data. Why is this happening?

[ghisler(Author)]

You need to press F2 or Ctrl+R to refresh the listing, Total Commander caches it for faster browsing.

[havanna]

Maybe that file was written (or uploaded) by a script and therefore ist owned by the script? In that case you would not be able to chance anything via ftp.
In that case you could just have your script change attributes - something like "chmod ($filename, 0777);" in PHP (that would make it writeable for everyone of course...)

[outspoken]

Old post, but just wanted to write back in and say that the problem was due to the filename. It was server side, as they did not accept spaces between anything. Normally I do not not put spaces in anything as I select all and CTRL+T to rename them all in a proper fashion, but in this instance I simply uploaded without renaming first.

The site does have an upload script and I prefer not to use it, after I upload via ftp I use the scripts other funciton which is batch processing. It is a nice script and our programmer made it with a umask of 022.

[AlleyKat]

(might be taking up an old thread that noone is interested in anyway, but was this mentioned as a possibility?)

I haven't come across an FTP yet which didn't just accept me writing
[face=courier]chmod xxx filename.ext[/face]
in the TC commandline (with xxx being rights, t.ex. 777). Same goes for folders.