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gnatphoto Member

I am suddenly having a problem that I have not had before with Fetch.

I suddenly can't get it to upload any file as text. It is uploading all files as binary, regardless of what I have selected (Text vs. Automatic). I even have Automatic defaulting to Text in the Prefs. Has anyone had this problem before? Why is it ignoring that I have "Text" selected?

Posted 22 years ago #
Jim Matthews Administrator

Are you using Fetch 3.0.3? If so, the way you specify the upload format is in a dialog that comes up after you press Put File... and select the file to upload; the radio buttons in the transfer window only affect downloads.

In Fetch 4.0 there are pop-up menus in the transfer window for setting both the upload format and the download mode.

Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks

Posted 22 years ago #
m5comp Member

Fetch 3.0.3 uploaded .css files as text files by default, but when I tried uploading a .css file with 4.0, it was uploaded as a binary file. I had to change Fetch's suffix mappings to make .css files upload as text files.

Posted 22 years ago #
Jim Matthews Administrator

Hmm, I'd expect Fetch to upload the .css files in text format if they had the "TEXT" file type.

Posted 22 years ago #
m5comp Member

The file type was definitely TEXT, and 4.0 kept uploading them as binary files until I changed the suffix mappings.

Posted 22 years ago #

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