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mabel
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creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« on: September 24, 2007, 11:09:18 PM »
Hello,
I have uploaded a video in my Yummi ftp server.  Normally a friend creates a link for me on his end.  But now I must do it myself.
So I am trying to figure out what and how to create this link so that a journalist in Miami can download the video for a presentation tomorrow.

Please reply asap. I will be very grateful.
You can email me directly at [email protected]

Thank you,

Mabel
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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2007, 02:09:37 AM »
Hi Mabel,

I suppose that your journalist will need to download the file using his web browser. You need to copy the url from the uploaded file and then adjust it from an FTP url to a Web URL.

• To copy the url of the uploaded file, select it in the server listing then choose 'Copy URL' from the File menu.
• Now start TextEdit (or any other text editing app) and use Paste from the Edit menu to paste the composed url so that you can see the text.
• Now you will need to adjust the url: you will at the very least need to replace the ftp:// with http:// which converts the url from FTP to a Web url, then remove the username@ part and change the ftp. part to www. You may need to adjust the leading directory path too - unfortunately I can't help with that since it will vary from one server to another. For example, on my own FTP server I would get a url from an uploaded file similar to:

ftp://[email protected]/www/www/uploadedfile

so I would convert it to:

http://www.yummyftp.com/uploadedfile

I know it's not simple, but I hope that helps.

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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 02:54:12 AM »
Thank you so much for your instructions.
I create a link that works and plays it well!

However, I was testing it and when trying to download it Quicktime asks me to buy the Pro version and then I can download it.
This is great, I think the journalist won't look into it.
Any other ideas to over pass this?

Best,
Mabel Valdiviezo
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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2007, 08:14:04 AM »
Sorry, but I don't think there's any way to stop the 'Buy Pro Version' prompt that QuickTime displays, other than actually paying for QuickTime Pro of course Smiley
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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2007, 08:34:36 AM »
My guess is that the file is in a format that Quicktime Player cannot handle. That is why it is asking you to buy QT Pro.  Can you use another format?  Google around for the substantial information available on video file formats and QT compatibility. There are add-ons that allow QT Player to read other formats but that is no use to your journalist friend...
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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2007, 10:29:50 AM »
No, I think it's not that QuickTime can't handle the file format - it can, but Apple wants you to purchase the Pro version for movie playback. All you need to do is click the Later button to continue.
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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2007, 07:49:03 PM »
My guess is QT is playing the video in the browser, then you are trying to do Save as Source which requires QT Pro.

If this is the case then all you need to do is go to File --> Save Page As from the browser.

The other way to do this is create a page that links to the file.

For example make a page with the following code:

You can do this is notepad or similar and save it as movies.html (or any other filename you want) and upload it to your website.

Which you would then send the other person to that link, for example http://yoursite.com/movies.html

Code:
<html>
<body>

<a href="http://yourwebsite.com/filename.mov">this is the text that appears on the page.</a>

</body>
</html>

This creates an extremely basic page with just a link to the file, then the other person can just right click on the file and select Save Link As. (or something similar, depends on the browser)

Then you could just update the page with new links and the other person can always just visit that page.
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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2007, 01:22:33 AM »
Hi I am BRAND new to all of this. Basically, I use IWEB 08 to create my website and then use yummy ftp to upload to my server (which I bought on godaddy.com).

The original post in this thread is a similar question to mine. I have a video (135mb) that I have tried to upload to my site via linking it to a file on my computer in IWEB 08.

When I connect to the FTP server in Yummy I see the file and it is 135mb and has been uploaded to my server. However, when I go into my Safari browser and go to my page and click on the link for the video it won't download. Instead it takes me to some weird page with a bunch of weird text everywhere.

Using the information posted by JD, I saw that my file does have the ftp://etcetc as its URL.

My question, is how do I change it to http://etcetc....do I change it in IWEB 08? if so, how? or do I change it in Yummy? if so, how?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

PS - Yummy seems AWESOME, thanks for the BA program!
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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2007, 03:06:38 AM »
Hi, this isn't a Yummy problem. You just need to edit your web page containing the video link so that it is a valid http:// link to the video file.
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when I go into my Safari browser and go to my page and click on the link for the video it won't download.

Which page are you referring to here?  Is this a page you have set up yourself using iWeb?  I don't have any experience with iWeb unfortunately but my impression is that you have very limited editing facilities, it basically works with templates for publishing on .mac.  However, in Safari look at the Source of the web page (View menu => View Source...). You should see a link like that given by artimeg above, although the http:// start isn't actually needed -- you don't want the link to start with ftp://.  If needed you can try the quick edit feature of Yummy: locate and select the web page in Yummy and then chose File=>Quick Edit.  You should be able to change the link following JD's example. However, if the video file is in the same folder as the web page then you can get away with something like
<a href="myvideo.mov">See my movie<a>

Try that and see how you go.
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Re: creating a link to an uploaded file for download
« Reply #9 on: December 28, 2007, 09:14:51 AM »
Send a link to your web site with the video download link and I'll see what I can figure out
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