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RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

Paul C. Beugeling — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:32:11 GMT

this thread was started in 2004 a bit dated so, you may be interested in these articles..

WS_FTP - How to move my Sites to a new machine or how to make a backup of my Site ...

WS_FTP - How do I import my sites from WS_FTP Home to WS_FTP Pro?

WS_FTP - How do I move my WS_FTP to another computer?

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

SFTP Guy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:59:49 GMT

The directions posted absolutely do not work for me. They appear to, however when I am done nothing is in the imported sites directory. I even tried to manually move the .ini data into the imported sites folder - all to no avail.

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

ed — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:55:39 GMT

That's very interesting, thanks. It seems that the method works without hacking when the two installations are on the same file system, but not for more bizarre arrangements such as mine. No problem, and I guess there's really no need for a utility such as I was pushing for. But - if Ipswitch developers are reading this - it would be helpful if the method were mentioned in the pgm help files. It's been fun to figure this out. - ed

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

Star Straf — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:57:08 GMT

NTFS to NTFS - I have both installed on the same computer.

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

ed — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:31:43 GMT

Thanks Star Straf. Just to complete the discussion, can you say if your files system is FAT or NTFS? I think copying the ini from FAT to FAT works OK, but things get a little messed up from FAT to NTFS.

Michael - I'm evaluating the Home & Pro versions now, & expect to buy one or the other. I'll certainly then suggest that Ipswitch provide a utility and/or rewrite the article on importing.

This has been an interesting & useful conversation, Thanks to you both. - ed

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

Star Straf — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:39:55 GMT

Ed,
it worked for me. I copied my
C:\Program Files\WS_FTP\WS_FTP.ini into
C:\Documents and Settings\sstraf\Application Data\Ipswitch\WS_FTP Home\Sites
and I now have my ftp sites complete with details and passwords working on the new version.

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

Michael Blakley — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:12:11 GMT

There's no live tech support for the free eval versions of Home and Pro, but there is a 30-day money-back thing. So one thing you could do is buy it, call or email Tech Support, and if they can't easily fix it or whatever, you could just return it.

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

ed — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 02:07:26 GMT

The article referred to by Michael basically says to paste the old into file in the directory where the new ws_ftp is to install. Rather bizarre advice, since how is the general user 'sposed to know what that directory will be called, before installation? The article further says that once this is done, the install pgm will import the old site info. For the devil of it, I tried that, no luck; current versions of ws-ftp (Home or Pro) don't even keep an ini file in \program files\ipswitch\ws_ftp.

Star Straf, I would be interested to know if you get those instructions to work!

The following hacks work for me. ['m working in Win2k (NTFS) (new install) running in a dual-boot setup with Win95B (FAT) (previous install). The new install is either the latest eval. versions of Home or Pro; I'm importing from an ancient ws_ftp LE.]

Pasting the old ini file over the new on in \documents and settings\<user>\application data\ipswitch\sites (this is where the ini file is in Win2k; look around for the analogous place under your OS) works pretty well - *Most* of the sites transfer properly, and work under the new installation. But some sites, although they're in the ini file, don't show up when I ran the program. I found that I could massage the site information a bit, and these sites then work too. It seems important not to lose the original entries of the ini file (that is, the ones that are there before copying over the old ini file. In my setup these original lines are:

[Shared Sites]
FILENAME=F:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Ipswitch\WS_FTP\Sites\ws_ftp.ini
[_config_]
mailaddr=wsftp90@
URLHistory=urlhistory.ini

I haven't tried it (I'm tired!), but I suppose pasting in the text of the old ini file into the new one, under the original new-ini lines, rather than pasting over, might save some work.

The upshot of all this technobabble (and a day's lost work) is that one can import sites, but it's a pain. We can't expect Ipswith to provide an import utility for the different ftp clients out there. But Ipswitch should work on an import utility for its own ws_ftp versions! - ed

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

Star Straf — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:31:21 GMT

Thank you - I had been trying to figure out how to do that - I though I looked all thru the help site but guess I missed that page - will try when I get home and if it works will "buy" my trial version

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

Michael Blakley — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:52:59 GMT

If you're talking about importing from an older version of WS_FTP, then here's an article on the subject.

http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WS-19991215-DM01.htm

There is no way of importing/exporting sites to/from WS_FTP to/from other companies' applications.

RE: Import sites from WS_FTP?

ed — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:24:58 GMT

I also have this problem, and I notice every qy. about it in this forum has gone unanswered. Importing from prev. vers. of ws_ftp, if not other ftp clients, should be a basic function, yet I can find no info about it in the help files. It's making it difficult for me to decide to buy the product (ws_ftp Home eval.). - ed

Import sites from WS_FTP?

Star Straf — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:07:04 GMT

Is there a way to import my ftp sites / passwords from WS_FTP?