Action on selection
You can make a selection in the files list and make some operations on it :

* declare to include it in the robots.txt disallowed files,
* declarations of import status files,
* declarations of ignore status files,
* declarations that considering remote and local files equal,
* declarations that considering remote and local files different,
* reread the directory,
* rename a remote file,
* clean the interrupt flag,
* order limited update ( export/import) or downloading-only according to the default direction.

Clicking on the right button of the mouse without any selection edits the current folder properties page.

update selection Updating the selection
Connection to the host and execution of all the operations needed to reflect the selection on the Internet.

Remember that there are three types of import :
* normal import by replacing existent local file
* import by appending the remote file to the existing local file
* import by completing the local file, like after a 'restart after interrupt', if the server allows the restart option

and one of export :
* only export by replacing the remote file by the local file

After import, the file may be optionnaly erased.
Robots.txt management
To disallow robot access to certain files, just select them and active the robots.txt check box.

To produce the robots.txt file, enter in the directory when you want it and select the command in the file menu.

robots.txt is relative to the current folder. Then, robots , when scanning an URL, can find it in the same folder.

Global robots.txt is useful only for personnal sites, since almost professional sites may be accessed at the parent folder level.
Import mode
Select the import type. Default is the standard copy-replace.

There are three types of import :
* normal import by replacing existent local file
* import by appending the remote file to the existing local file
* import by completing the local file, like after a 'restart after interrupt', if the server allows the restart option

This property is inheritable by children of folders.

You can also specify to erase the remote file after import. But , for security reasons, this property is not inheritable.

( version 3.0 allows more complexes operations when using NT servers ).
Files and folders to ignore
Click on the ignore check box to ignore all the selection.

This property is inheritable by children of folders.

In the dialog box, there are three ignore status :
* from parameters , then excluded by the file extension
* inherited : is a children of an excluded folder
* at item level : this is the only one you can change here !
Rename
If you select only one remote file, or two files, one only local and the other only remote, you can do a direct rename operation.

We test a way to specify rename orders off-line. If ok, it will be available in the 2.8.4 version before the 3.0 ( 03/10/98 )
Clear the interrupted update flag
If an update is interrupted, a flag is set on the item not updated. When browsing the site with ablyFTP, the file is highlighted.

If it was a download, and if restart is allowed on the server, you may restart the operation without downloading twice the good beginning of the file.

import  Downloading
NEW since the 2.8.0 version :

After this operation, the ALTERNATE local folder contains all the files of the selection. Previous data is not erased.

You may use this mode to download a selection of file from an public FTP site ( or gopher vers 3.0 ).

( Previous versions were making exact reverse operation of upload. This way of update was obsolete and a little dangerous. Let's talk about if you need some special process. )

dir import  Reading Web directory
It is the first operation to do the first time you want to manage a site if you know it is not empty. Then, AblyFTP, assuming that it is the unique modifier of the site, maintains its own folder contents list.

Note that geting a directory by FTP is the less standardized FTP operation. If you have difficulties with a particular type of host, please eMail the maintainance service to fix it.

Red button is for global filelist , blue for import files filelist and green for a selection when you click with the right button of the mouse.

equal  Forcing update or not
Used on a selection of files and folders.

Considering 2 files equal : if the file is present here, web takes the local parameters to avoid an update. If the file is present only on the Internet, it will be ignored and removed from the external directory list managed by AblyFTP, but not from the Internet.

Considering 2 files different : remote parameters are reset to force update. If the file is present only on the Internet, it will be ignored and removed from the external directory list managed by AblyFTP.

Using thoses buttons is not required for a normal use but may be interesting for ponctual operations to make fine selections.