Your transfer program may not be exactlylike this but the principle is the same...
Open the program
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Click the my sites folder and then click new on the right (this connections will appear in the my sites folder)
Click the ftp site button
Choose a name (this is the name of your connection to the remote computer and can be anything you wish
'Enter this ie ftp.yourdomainname - with more modern programs you may not need to enter ftp. -
if your connecton fails then try not using ftp. and setting it up again
Next….
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Enter your user id
And your password
Tick the save password box or it won’t work
Click finish
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I have lots in my connections list while you will have only the one right now
Double click on the name you gave your connection
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You will see three folders, your site pages are inside the www folder and this is where you will transfer your images
Your database is inside the odbc folder, for now please don‘t attempt to do anything to the database we can teach you this later if you need to know
The logs folder is simply a record of what has occurred on your domain
Open the www folder by double clicking
Now you are connected
There are folders already insitu which contain various parts of your site
You need to open the images folder (double click) and then follow your instructions for transferring copies of your images into the appropriate place by clicking on the file on YOUR side local) and hitting the arrow pointing towards the remote computer.
New images with the same name will over-ride older images
To safeguard anything old on the remote computer while you check that the new one is Ok, simply change the name of the old file by clicking on the remote side rename button (which may be greyed out until you select a file) and putting the day date in front – so (eg) 070217name.jpg). Please remove these unwanted images when you are happy with the new ones.