Too many files in public_html/comics/ directory. FTP help?

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:14 pm

I need to delete a couple of files in public_html/comics/. (The short version is, I gave Sunday's comic Saturday's date, and didn't notice until now. So I've uploaded comics with the right dates, but I don't want to leave the comic up on Saturday.)

The trouble is, I have so many files in public_html/comics/ that FTP programs keep truncating the results. FireFTP cut it off at 2000. CoffeeCup FTP cut it off a couple hundred later. That only allows me to view files through about last June.

I know the exact names of the files; is there a way to delete them manually through ComicGen itself? Or does anyone know of a free FTP program that will display all ~2400 files in the directory?

Americangothic · Post by **Americangothic** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:21 pm

Hey Erin..
I've been using HTML-kit. It is a html editor, but you can access your FTP through it. It is a free download. Just do a google search for it.

It will put your FTP in a table on the right hand side and keep it open for long periods of time so you can edit HTML files at the same time. I dunno...it might work for you.

Gothia

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:06 pm

There's also CG's old Butch Web-FTP. It's from back in the Keenspace days, but it still works.

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:30 pm

Thanks, but those two options don't help.

Neither will display more than 2000 files in a directory. In both of them, when I opened public_html/comics/, they only showed files as far as June 2006.

I already have a lovely FTP program, FireFTP. These look like lovely programs too, but I only need one. I don't just need a utility that does the same things as FireFTP; I need one that can specifically deal with freakin' huge directories.

I'm kind of hoping someone with a long-running comic will come along and say "Oh, that happened to me too, and here's what I did..."

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:36 pm

I don't know for sure that it'll work for you, and it's been a very long time since I personally have used it, but have you tried the very un-lovely Windows command line ftp system? Since you know the exact filenames you're looking for, it <i>should</i> allow you to delete them without ever having to display a file list for that directory, but like I said, I really don't know for sure that it'll work with a directory that large... I hope something works for you!

Warofwinds · Post by **Warofwinds** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:38 pm

Well, if it's only displaying that many, on SmartFTP you can press a tab above the listed files to change the order in which the files are displayed, a-z or z-a. If you need the ones at the end, click the tab and you get the most recent files viewable at top. I don't know how you could view ALL the files, but that may help. Good luck!

SailorPtah · Post by **SailorPtah** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:26 pm

moonshadow wrote:...have you tried the very un-lovely Windows command line ftp system? Since you know the exact filenames you're looking for, it <i>should</i> allow you to delete them without ever having to display a file list for that directory...

That's exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. And I tried it, and it worked.

Thank you so much!