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Photo Mechanic FTP problem
John Dykstra, Photographer
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Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 8:22 AM on 09.03.07 |
->> I use Photo Mechanic to caption, crop, and FTP. On Saturday afternoon, I shot a college football game, did some edits on the images and used PM (4.5.1) to FTP the images in (4pm). I watched the transmission occur and got an OK on each file then shut down my laptop and went back out to shoot.
I got an email yesterday indicating that the files were not received until Sunday morning. Any clues on what might have happened or what I may need to do to prevent another occurence?
John |
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Kevin M. Cox, Photographer, Assistant
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Galveston / Houston | TX | US | Posted: 11:01 AM on 09.03.07 |
->> FTP is point-to-point. The files go directly from your computer to their server (unlike email which gets passed between mail servers). If they got the images at all, and you never re-sent them at a later time, then they were on their server right when you sent them at 4 PM. I'd suggest this is a problem on their end.
At my paper for example we FTP images into a folder that is "watched" by another program for incoming images. When this "multi-converter" program sees a photo it runs it through a little routine and inserts it into our editorial database. It then removes the original photo from the incoming FTP directory. If our "multi-converter" has crashed then the photos do not appear in the database where the copy desk is looking for them until someone restarts the program.
Sounds like something similar may have happened in your case. |
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Dennis Wierzbicki, Photographer
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Plainfield | IL | USA | Posted: 7:49 AM on 09.05.07 |
->> Not sure if this is what is happening in your case or not, John, but I have a couple customers who insist PM's FTP feature doesn't work with their servers. I don't know why, but for these guys, I use a third party program like Filezilla.
To Kevin's point, PM has the ability to put images in a destination "watched" folder, so if this is the issue, you might be able to fix it by finding out what the address of the folder is and using this as your destination. |
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John Dykstra, Photographer
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Charlotte | NC | USA | Posted: 8:13 AM on 09.05.07 |
->> Thanks for the responses, Kevin and Dennis. For a game on Monday I used an FTP client rather than the PM FTP and images went through without a problem, so I think I'll stick with that method for a while.
John |
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T.J. Hamilton, Photographer
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Grand Rapids | MI | USA | Posted: 12:42 PM on 09.05.07 |
| ->> We've had occasional problems with our server being bogged down by another department's stuff coming into the newspaper's system...(advertising stuff), so it gets full. If somethings not showing up, we call our I.T. guy, and he fixes it. |
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