Quanta Upload Question

[banjo]

I am a new user of Quanta. I am porting

the maintenance of an existing web page

from Windoze to Linux, and I have now created

a project in Quanta to handle it. Quanta is a

great tool.

 

My problem is uploading the site to the server.

 

My web page has megabytes of files already

uploaded, but Quanta does not know that. So

each time I upload, it assumes that *all* of the

files have "changed" and it therefore flags them

all for upload. I have to unselect all the files

and then reselect the one or two I really need to

upload to avoid sending the whole thing up at

once. This defeats the capability of the tool to

determine for me which files need to be uploaded.

 

I do not want to waste hours of upload time

to upload all of the files that are already there

just to satisfy Quanta that they have been refreshed

on the host.

 

Does anybody know how I can go in and tell Quanta

to update all the timestamps on all of the files in

the project so that it will assume that they have

already been uploaded?

 

If I could do this, it would save me loads of time.

 

Thanks in advance

[banjo]

I figured out the answer to my own

question. After uploading a file, Quanta

saves the upload time in the project file

(proj_name.webprj) in the following format:

 

<item upload_time="1059915573" url="archives.html" />

 

Newly added files are saved like this

 

<item url="archives.html" />

 

No upload time is mentioned.

 

So, I made a backup of the project file and

then edited it using Vim. Using global search

and replace, I added the same upload_time value

to every line where there was none.

 

Now, Quanta is convinced that I uploaded all

of my files at the same time. When I invoke

the Upload Project dialog, all of my files

come up unchecked. The automatic time stamp

detection feature should now work as

advertised.

 

Banjo

[banjo]

I asked this question a long time ago, and I came up with a workaround, which is

to edit the project file and manually update the timestamps.

 

But I am getting tired of editing project files just to get the timestamps correct.

This is turning into a showstopper because the feature has no utility if I

must always go in and update upload times manually. It would be easier to just write

down the file names and then upload manually using ftp, which is the way I

used to do this.

 

So I am posting the question again.

 

The problem is that after I upload a project to the web, the upload times are

not updated in the project file, so the next upload wants to upload all of

those files again......... and again........ and again!

 

Is there something else that I need to do to make this work?

 

The Save Project menu item is grayed out, so I cannot force a save.

 

I have tried clicking the Update All button in the Update dialog, and it deselects

the files, but it does not update the project file.

 

I have tried closing all of the open .html files before closing Quanta, but that does

not help.

 

I have tried closing the project before exiting Quanta in an attempt to force

a save. No good.

 

I have opened up the permissions on the project file completely. Nothing.

 

Does anybody know of a way to fix this, or perhaps there is another tool that I can

use for my projects. This is just too frustrating. I spend a *lot* of time editing pages

for the web, and I need a tool that works.

 

Thanks

Banjo

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