Just thought i'd post this quote here since FlemishDreams made such a nice effort of breaking down the process even more.
I didn't know you could schedule Filezilla! How do you do that?
The easiest way is to put all your sites in the site manager: fill in FTP url, name, pass. For SS and BigStock, also put the "number of simultaneous connections" to 1 (Transfer Settings tab).
At the left pane (
Local site) open the folder you want to upload from on your disk. Select the files you want to upload by CTRL-click or SHIFT-click if they are in a contiguous row, just like in the windows file manager.
Open site 1 in your site manager and click connect, then wait till in your right pane (
Remote site) the folder on the remote site comes alive. Drag the files from the left to the right pane. Transfer starts for site 1.
The bottom pane has three tabs:
Queued files, Failed transfers, Successful transfers. Your uploads will show in the
Queued files where you can monitor Site to upload to, local file name/folder, and transfer progress bar.
Now open site 2 in your site manager and connect. It will ask whether to break the current connection, and answer "yes".
This is the part where most people get fooled since they think it will interrupt the queue. That's
not true, the queued transfers will just go on. So once on the right panel the remote folder for site 2 goes live, drag and drop the batch from the left pane again there. This queues the transfer as you can see in the bottom pane.
Now go back to site manager and connect to site 3. You will be asked again to break the current connection, so answer "yes". When site 3 goes live in the right pane, drag the local files from the left pane there again. Etc...
Do this for all your sites that have FTP. At the end, you will see all files in progress plus the queued ones in the bottom pane. You're set now. Take a walk, take a bath, go shopping, or minimize filezilla and go on with whatever you're doing on your pc.
When all is finished, the bottom pane with
Queued files will be empty. If some transfers failed, click the
Failed transfers tab, and there you will see a list of the failed ones. You can easily reschedule them by selecting them all, right click and choose "reschedule" or whatever from the context menu that popped up.
To make sure, you can also check the
Successful transfers tab to verify what was uploaded where.
How just to schedule and not really upload
now? Instead of dragging the files to the left pane, left-click on the files and choose "Add files to queue" in the context menu that pops up. You will see that the scheduled files are added to the bottom pane with
Queued files, along with the site to which they are queued to,
but they don't start. If later you want to delete one of more files from the queue, just select them there and press Delete.
Ah, and right clicking on the queued files gives you also the choice what to do after all uploads are done: play a sound, close Filezilla, shut down the PC (in case you start before going to bed), reboot, etc...
