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Something curious: much of the time when I’m FTPing a full set of EE files to the Engine Hosting servers certain files get skipped during the process.

It always happens to be the same ones:

/cp/cp.publish.php
/cp/cp.publish_ad.php
/modules/gallery/mcp.gallery.php
/modules/ip_to_nation/iptonation.php
/modules/weblog/mod.weblog.php
/modules/wiki/mod.wiki.php

The only way to get them on the server is to manually upload them using the FTP interface on the Engine Hosting Control Panel. Not the end of the world, but it’s a bit of a hassle.

Anyone else get this? Is this an Engine Hosting issue?

I use Transmit and EngineHosting and definitely do not have this problem.  I also do many installations and have never seen this happen.

I wish I had more information for you.  I’ll see if I can find out anything else.

kevin, which FTP program is this happening with?

I use CuteFTP, and haven’t had this problem.

Admittedly, I’m just using Dreamweaver’s built in FTP function.

Ah, I had problems with that skipping files a lot years ago before I knew what a script was - just plain html files.  I would recommend a, uh… real FTP program.  No offense. =)

Duly noted.

I’m not sure what system you’re on, but like Sue, on my PC I use CuteFTP - on the Mac, it’s Transmit all the way.  You can’t go wrong with those two, imo.

I found sFTP through Dreamweaver a bit more robust than regular FTP. But since I switched to the Mac I’ve also been using Transmit.

I haven’t used Dreamweaver in years. But i do remember something like this. DW has various settings where it tries to guess that you are attempting to “sync” instead of overwrite. In this case, a file that isn’t changed will be skipped. So when uploading a new build, if the file dates are the same (which would happen when a file hasn’t changed in a new build), it would get skipped by DW.