Timestamps of FTP transfer

[5tulips]

I just tested my path to my host for one of my FrontPage webs by
transferring a file. This web is transferred via FTP with WS-FTP. Before I
did this, I went to my computer's web cache folder and deleted the previous
..web file.

When I chose the file to transfer (dated 10/4/07 at 11:26 p.m.) (time stamp
of the orogonal transfer), WS-FTP, seeing it had already been transferred to
the host with this time-stamp, asked if it could replace it with the file
with time-stamp of 10/4/07 at 9:34 am.

Seeing the replacement's timestamp, I looked at the transfer notes which
said the file was loaded from [Directory Listing Cache]DIRB.tmp. I did a
search to find that it is the WS-FTP's cache. the actual file was 5 KB.

Is this supposed to be an intuitive replacement by WS-FTP? Should I have
not deleted the .web cache, which, undoubtedly contained an exact copy of
the originally transferred file.

 

[Ronx]

Which .web file from which cache?
The .web files in Documents and Settings/username/Application
Data\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache have nothing to do with WS
FTP - they are used by FrontPage.
Deleting .web files does no harm (provided FrontPage is closed)

The .web cache files do not contain copies of the files in a web site.

 

[5tulips]

Yes, I'm aware of that. It was just a description of what I had done while
getting ready to resend a file. And it *was* the FrontPage web cache files
that I deleted, as you stated. I was just looking to find out why an FTP
transfer would offer to send up a replacement file that is about 12 hours
older than the one I wanted to send.
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: Which .web file from which cache?
: The .web files in Documents and Settings/username/Application
: Data\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache have nothing to do with WS
: FTP - they are used by FrontPage.
: Deleting .web files does no harm (provided FrontPage is closed)
:
: The .web cache files do not contain copies of the files in a web site.
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: > I just tested my path to my host for one of my FrontPage webs by
: > transferring a file. This web is transferred via FTP with WS-FTP. Before
I
: > did this, I went to my computer's web cache folder and deleted the
previous
: > .web file.
: >
: > When I chose the file to transfer (dated 10/4/07 at 11:26 p.m.) (time
stamp
: > of the orogonal transfer), WS-FTP, seeing it had already been
transferred to
: > the host with this time-stamp, asked if it could replace it with the
file
: > with time-stamp of 10/4/07 at 9:34 am.
: >
: > Seeing the replacement's timestamp, I looked at the transfer notes which
: > said the file was loaded from [Directory Listing Cache]DIRB.tmp. I did
a
: > search to find that it is the WS-FTP's cache. the actual file was 5 KB.
: >
: > Is this supposed to be an intuitive replacement by WS-FTP? Should I
have
: > not deleted the .web cache, which, undoubtedly contained an exact copy
of
: > the originally transferred file.
: > --
: > 5tulips (^) (^) (^) (^) (^)
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