FTP program that does this.

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Sorry if this is the wrong section to post this question but I need a FTP program that allows one to check the properties (size of files) for all files in a directory.

I've already tried several but I was only able to check the properties for multiple files on my hard drive, and not on the ftp site (was only able to check file sizes one at a time).

I need this to make sure an upload went through.

Thanks.
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  • I don't know of any that do that, but if your server is a Linux server, and you have access to SSH, you can use the command

    $ du -ch /path/to/your/directory | grep total

    and this will show the size of everything in that folder.

    If not, your SOLd, as there is no FTP program that supports this. FTP doesn't support recursion, as it's a pretty simple protocol.

    You could possibly try telnet if the server supports that too.

    --m4rx
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    • Cheers, will be handy for me Thanks!
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  • FileZilla has a window that will show you what I think you are looking for if I understand your question correctly. You just highlight the files, and the cumulative size appears below. Here's a screenshot of the remote window to show you:



    It's at http://filezilla-project.org/
    Hope that helps.

    Cheers,
    Neil
  • The only problem with that is that it will only work on files, not a directory. So if there are other folders inside that directory, shift will have to check each one of those individually.

    --m4rx
  • I will give Filezilla a try, and it looks like I'll just have to check each directory individually.
    Oh well better than nothing.

    So it looks like there's no solution to this, that it's not possible to check file sizes within multiple directories; one must check each directory's files at a time.

    Thanks and if anyone knows differently, would appreciate the info.
  • may be you can directly connect to the ftp port via telnet and request file properties of a folder..but that will need some technical know how..anyways filezila also works good
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    FTP program that does this.

    Sorry if this is the wrong section to post this question but I need a FTP program that allows one to check the properties (size of files) for all files in a directory. I've already tried several but I was only able to check the properties for multiple files on my hard drive, and not on the ftp site (was only able to check file sizes one at a time).