FTP connection with Total Commander

A talk through setting up an FTP connection and downloading files from an FTP server to your local drive with Total Commander.

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hello Chris this is when I want to show
you how you can configure total
commander to connect to the ftp server
if you have downloaded total commander
and installed it you will see this
welcome screen it is a shareware version
therefore you will be asked to press one
of the three buttons specified herein
the text in this case it's number one
but with every program start this is
randomly determined then you will see
configuration menu you can just ignore
that for the moment and press cancel
total commander is a file manager that
means the window is divided into two
panels on penalties on the left or the
other panel is on the right you can
switch between them just like clicking
the mouse or better by pressing the
tabulator keep the tab and each of these
panels is like a spread of file explorer
window where you see files and folders
in a particular location which is
written up here so in this case it's the
dr c you can switch to another drives
with this pulldown menu and you will
navigate through folders by
double-clicking then like here and if
you want to go level up or just hire in
the folder structure that will put two
dots you should be familiar with this
with a normal financial can also use the
arrow peace and pressing enter on the
folder or just backspace to go one level
up so I backspace they call one level up
any file manipulation with this file
manager happens between two panels so
for example if I want to copy one file
from the folder horrible i switch to a
folder in one panel and I want to copy
it to the folder
sike when i switched to the another to
the target location in the other panel
and then I switch to the panel and I
took want to copy the file from I
tonight with my cursor i'm on the file I
can mark it for for handling for
manipulation by pressing the insert key
it will turn red and then i can choose
what do I want to do with that fire in
my case I want to copy it just tell you
about stroller how you can copy files
you can see it in this bottom by menu
bar 45 mins copy so i just press f5 and
he asks me do you want to copy this file
to the location specified in the other
panel in this case it is see side win
yes just okay and it copies the file the
location and this will also happen
between this can happen
wait between two drives or between an
ftp server and the local drive which is
what we are going to do now i have
copied the style this file here into the
side when folder and I want to delete it
so again I market with the insert key it
will turn red
then I see here in the function key bar
that the function key f8 means that it's
why press f8 and he asks me do you
really want to do the file you have
marked yes and it's gone so now for
setting up the FTP connection you will
go to the menu net and ftp connect here
you want to configure a new connection
so you click new connection and in this
dialog window you will enter the access
data session is a compensatory field you
have to name it somehow so you can name
it whatever you want you concerning
let's call it
likessee rules
ever then host i have written you the
hostname so it's cdna EV a and b GD and
you will login with your username which
is no Chris and with your password i
have specified in the email from 16th
august then you are basically done
you don't need to enter anything else
here just click OK and with that moment
you will see that you have configured
here connection to like tick no server
and you can connect right now by
clicking connect but I won't do it I
will show you that it's it says saved
every time you start total commanded you
can just click either this ftp button it
will show you the menu with ftp servers
or you can go to net ftp connect or UC
shortcut you can press also control
health it's all the same you will see
the menu 1 ftp server is configured now
and you click connect this will cause
one of the panels the panel you are
currently active in will change from the
drive to a remote server ftp transfer
mode and the folders and files on the
server will appear here as being on a
drive cold 0 and the name of the drivers
light signal serving see it's FTP File
Transfer Protocol you are logged in with
your username increase at the ftp server
with this hostname and what you see
there is again nothing but files and
folders like it would be one of your
local drives so you can navigate through
them with the arrow keys and pressing
enter you see here the primary data from
our project
some non-speech data which are basically
photographs and files and JPG files and
another folder in primitive a speech
where he we have wave files elicitation
files for each session in its own folder
and some songs takes lexicon it'sit's
every everything is here I go up the
next at this moment you can't go further
absolutely it doesn't allow you to press
on this two dots they just don't
function well you can't go further up
you the highest level what you can see
is these three folders primary data is
the doctor we record secondary data data
from research so there we see
publication for example publications are
those things we have left with sassy
like the cds DVD posted files to PDF
files ready to print text collection as
well and in the Linguistics folder you
see our talks and presentations we gave
Martina here and torment myself here so
this is this is what you see and it's
also in li the location of your is
written here in the the header of the
panel so you are not in the photo
secondary characteristics when 2008
pronouns and so on so let's suppose you
want to copy one of those those files to
your local hard life so you can switch
by pressing tabulator to your local hard
drive on the other panel and let's make
a new folder for it to make a new folder
you can press f7 and to ask you to a
name so in state copied growing ftp
and trade and suppose you want to copy
their something some linguistic so the
paper comments and worker 2009.pdf file
you can again market with the insert key
and if you remember copying was the five
function key so just stay in the in the
panel with the marked file and the other
panel must be the location where you
want the target location where you want
to copy it just is a five and if you ask
you do you want to download it's not now
he doesn't have to copy but its download
from the seller you want to download it
to the path of see copied from ftp you
local
okay Marco handout PDF yes okay and he
will execute the necessary ftp commands
to download the key it would download
the file to the target location now I
just for demonstration purposes I'm just
delete it again you will probably at
some point download everything which is
here on this ftp server so you can mark
whole directories also again with the
insert key to justice in that key three
times each time to move your cursor
further down and Mark all these three
directories and set the other panel to
the path to the location where you want
to copy all these files to you will need
about 80 gigabytes of free space so i
cant download everything was here on the
server right now to my c drive because i
see it i have only 26 gigabyte out of
200 200 is my capacity of the hard life
and it's almost full it's only 26
gigabyte free but if you all find a
location external hard life or whatever
where you have some 80 gigabytes free
you can set it here in the other panel
switch back to the ftp server by
pressing tab key or clicking Mouse where
you have marked the folders and then you
press a five to copy them or to download
them and he asks you do you want to
download them to the location specified
and then you press ok to execute a
number of ft commands which you can see
passing very fast here in this statues
window to the last depending on your
download speed some two or three hours
maybe longer I don't know but eventually
every file on the ftp server will be
downloaded in the location on your hard
drive you specified over this window
will disappear automatically when when
it's done I will about it right now
because I don't have the space the free
space on the hard drive to do it fully
but once it's downloaded you will see
these folders also in your local hard
drive location and then you can click
disconnect to to end this ftp session to
disconnect from the ftp server and
that's basically it anytime you want to
connect again you just start the total
commander and press ctrl f or get to net
ftp connect lightness ever connect and
again the currently active panel in this
case it's the right one will change to
the ftp server and it's all the same
just the panels are now switch now
switch sides you want to switch sides of
the panel you can just some somewhere
find the command to swap sides target
and sortable it will swap sides just
pressing control you or commands source
and swapped source and target
it's just how it's more convenient for
you and if you are done with your
file transfers you can disconnect I just
want to note that you also can upload
something on the server just in case you
want to to give us any other material
just find it on your local hard life
marketing insert and then have in the
other panel the ftp server and let's
upload this one file with copy pressing
f5 and that's it it's here but i will do
it again because this is a nonsense file
so and then press disconnect that's and
I think you need to know I hope that
helped you and now you are able to
access the data we share with you
so goodbye good luck with that