I bet you're all getting tired of me, but I I just got on my FTP program today (SmartFTP) and found two problems:
But first, I need to tell some things to clear everything up:
My website address is http://www.fishmancomics.com
I am the only one who uses this computer.
Yesterday, the only change I made to my site was adding a menu to the top (the buttons of which lead nowhere, because those pages haven't been made yet). Then I uploaded the changed indextemplate using my FTP program. That is all I used it for. I didn't mess with any folders or documents (with the exception of indextemplate, of course) while using my FTP program.
Okay, now for the problems:
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1. my dailytemplate is nowhere to be found. I know it can be replaced, so it's really not that big of a problem.
2. my entire /workspace folder seems to have been copied to my /public_html folder (meaning, "now there are two seperate /workspace folders")...anything I do to one /workspace folder is reflected in the other, so they seem to be connected...which means I can't delete the duplicate one.
I tried deleting the extra one (probably not the smartest thing to do, in hindsight), and all it did was delete the /comics folder from the original /workspace folder, which I quickly fixed by adding it back.
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Neither of these things seem to be affecting the website in any way right now, but they might in the future.
Anyway, my main concerns are:
How did these things happen?
Why did these things happen?
Were they supposed to happen?
If the second /workspace folder is not supposed to be there, how do I get rid of it without deleting the other?
Can anyone else get access to my files without my knowledge?
Thanks
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Re: too many of one thing, not enough of another...
The answer to this issue is below... keep reading.fishmancomics wrote:
1. my dailytemplate is nowhere to be found. I know it can be replaced, so it's really not that big of a problem.
Covered in the FAQ I think - this is not an error, and it is not a copy. It's a link back. It's like having a front and back door to the same home. When you follow the workspace link under public_html, you are actually back in \workspace.2. my entire /workspace folder seems to have been copied to my /public_html folder (meaning, "now there are two seperate /workspace folders")...anything I do to one /workspace folder is reflected in the other, so they seem to be connected...which means I can't delete the duplicate one.
Don't do anything silly like delete it, because you'll delete your workspace.
D'oh. I just TOLD you not to delete it.I tried deleting the extra one (probably not the smartest thing to do, in hindsight), and all it did was delete the /comics folder from the original /workspace folder, which I quickly fixed by adding it back.
That's where your dailytemplate.html went to, by the way. You seem to have corrected your problem.Answered these above. You did a BadThing(tm).How did these things happen?
Why did these things happen?
Were they supposed to happen?
If the second /workspace folder is not supposed to be there, how do I get rid of it without deleting the other?
Administrators could, of course. But nobody else.Can anyone else get access to my files without my knowledge?
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I don't know how much you know about computers, but the little white square with the arrow means it's a shortcut (ie, a link to a file or folder that is actually somewhere else), so you should've known it wasn't a copy or something like that. But I've never used SmartFTP, so maybe it doesn't show up on there. Either way, now you know.
In other news: yes, this is my first post.
In other news: yes, this is my first post.
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oh i know plenty about computers...just sometimes i get a little confused when things happen that i didn't do, and also it's better to ask questions to make sure nothing else gets messed up.
...and there are no shortcut symbols on the extra /workspace folder...but that is no longer a problem anyway.
my dailytemplate is missing though...last Thursdays comic has fallen victim to its disappearance, so now i am replacing it.
...i just hope it doesn't disappear again.
(but in case it does, i'm saving a copy of dailytemplate and indextemplate on my computer...which i should have done earlier)
...and there are no shortcut symbols on the extra /workspace folder...but that is no longer a problem anyway.
my dailytemplate is missing though...last Thursdays comic has fallen victim to its disappearance, so now i am replacing it.
...i just hope it doesn't disappear again.
(but in case it does, i'm saving a copy of dailytemplate and indextemplate on my computer...which i should have done earlier)
Does that mean that you've been editing them directly on the server? As far as I know, you're not supposed to do that. All the editting should be done on your own computer and then uploaded to the server, so yes, you should have saved them a long time ago.
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