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From: Pat Geary <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] help recovering my files
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:29:29 -0500
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At 09:30 AM 11/4/2009, Catherine Burke wrote:
>Hello, I hope I am writing to the right place or that you can direct me.
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>A few months ago my computer crashed and the recovery disc we tried to make
>from the hard drive became corrupted thereby making all of my genealogy
>files that I have on my family website nonexistent.
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>I have searched and searched for a way to copy my files off of the Rootsweb
>server and get them back onto my computer so that I can have access to them
>again. I still have my passwords. While I can find plenty of information
>on how to upload files I can't find out how to retrieve my already uploaded
>files. I have a rather extensive site so to not have access to it and to
>think about having to recreate it is too daunting a task. There must be an
>easier way!
Catherine, you can use any third party ftp program (Filezilla is
free) to sign on to the rootsweb server and copy the files on the
server to your hard drive.

See
http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/tutorials/filezilla-instructions.htm

Instead of publishing to the server from your hard drive, you would
be publishing from the server to your hard drive.

Pat


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