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I know there are 100 of these here, but none of the answers work.
Here is exactly what happens:
If I use Explorer or IE to connect to an FTP server, I can download
files by dragging and dropping just fine, but when I try to drag a
file onto the ftp window to upload, the "Copying" window comes up and
does nothing. It will stay there forever. It never times out or anything.
The ONLY way to get rid of it is to go to the Task manager and kill it.
That in itself is horrible--if the person who programmed that was my
student (I teach CS), I would fail them. Why on earth does it not go
away. If you hit cancel, it stays. If you hit the "x" it stays. If you
reboot it tells you it can't because windows is in the middle of a long
operation.
Some posts say check the "passive mode" box, others say uncheck it.
Neither work. I just unchecked it, and copied one file. Thought it was
fixed. Then I dragged a directory onto the window. It copied all of
the sub directories, but as soon as it got to a file, it hangs--just stuck
saying "Copying", apparently with no timeout. So I kill it once again.
Doesn't it seem strange that IE has such a nice feature--using the explorer
to do FTP--but doesn't allow it to be used if the firewall is on?
Anyway, I am getting very upset about this, having spent about 5 hours
trying to fix it.
As other have mentioned, NO ftp program (Except for the command line
FTP executed from "Run" on the Start menu) works. I thought this was
working before, and the only thing that changed was our router. I turned
the firewall on that off, and if I turn Windows firewall off, it seems to
work,
so I don't think it is the router anyway.
So, what am I doing wrong? This should be an easy one:
How do I get FTP to work in Explorer?
Please, please please somebody tell me.
Chuck.
Here is exactly what happens:
If I use Explorer or IE to connect to an FTP server, I can download
files by dragging and dropping just fine, but when I try to drag a
file onto the ftp window to upload, the "Copying" window comes up and
does nothing. It will stay there forever. It never times out or anything.
The ONLY way to get rid of it is to go to the Task manager and kill it.
That in itself is horrible--if the person who programmed that was my
student (I teach CS), I would fail them. Why on earth does it not go
away. If you hit cancel, it stays. If you hit the "x" it stays. If you
reboot it tells you it can't because windows is in the middle of a long
operation.
Some posts say check the "passive mode" box, others say uncheck it.
Neither work. I just unchecked it, and copied one file. Thought it was
fixed. Then I dragged a directory onto the window. It copied all of
the sub directories, but as soon as it got to a file, it hangs--just stuck
saying "Copying", apparently with no timeout. So I kill it once again.
Doesn't it seem strange that IE has such a nice feature--using the explorer
to do FTP--but doesn't allow it to be used if the firewall is on?
Anyway, I am getting very upset about this, having spent about 5 hours
trying to fix it.
As other have mentioned, NO ftp program (Except for the command line
FTP executed from "Run" on the Start menu) works. I thought this was
working before, and the only thing that changed was our router. I turned
the firewall on that off, and if I turn Windows firewall off, it seems to
work,
so I don't think it is the router anyway.
So, what am I doing wrong? This should be an easy one:
How do I get FTP to work in Explorer?
Please, please please somebody tell me.
Chuck.