Upload to FTP 1.5, Readme ©2005 Peter Dekkers – http://editkid.com

Upload to FTP v1.5

Upload to FTP is an action for Automator. It allows you to easily upload files to your FTP server in any Automator workflow. It accepts files/folders and outputs a list of filenames for all the uploaded files.

All this happens in the background, so there's no message outputted to the user, if all goes well. If the FTP details are incorrect or the server is not available, a message will pop up.

How to install

Just open the installer package and you will be guided through the installation process. The action will be copied to /Library/Automator.

How to use

There are numerous ways in which you can use this action. Here are a few examples. The workflow files can be found in the examples folder included with the distribution.

1. Upload to dropbox

A simple workflow to copy files to your web server and copying their URLs to the clipboard. Excellent for quickly posting files on your site.

This workflow works best when saved as a Finder plug-in.

2. Resize images and upload

A handy workflow to resize images for the web and upload them to your standard image folder on your server. It also copies the URLs of the resulting files to the clipboard, for easy inclusion in an HTML document, for example.

Note: this workflow copies the temporary images to a temporary folder. To get this to work, make sure the path the the folder is correct.

This workflow works best when saved as a Finder plug-in.

3. Back up to FTP

This workflow is designed to run as an iCal alarm. It could be set to run timely and make a copy of a certain set of files or a folder on your system. Just choose a folder and save the workflow as a plug-in of the type iCal Alarm.

4. Any way you can imagine

If you make a nice workflow and would like to share it with others, feel free to drop me a line at ftp_workflow@editkid.com and I'll include it in future distributions.

Documentation and Support

Presently there isn't very much documentation apart from this readme, but if any becomes available, it will be located at http://editkid.com/upload_to_ftp

What's new in this version?

v1.1
- Added support for proxy servers
- Added forced passive transfers
v1.3
- Fixed a recursion bug - Many thanks to Tom Davies!
v1.4
- Fixed a bug with some servers with line endings being appended to filenames
   Thanks Marcel Rivard!
v1.5
- A bug crept in to the last version - the directory, pasv and port entry fields weren't being used.

I sincerely hope you enjoy this action and all the other goodness OS X has to offer.

Best wishes,
Peter Dekkers