Troubleshooting FTP Settings

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The current version of GarageSale does not support SFTP connections. Passive FTP connections and FTPS connections are supported.

If you have trouble figuring out the correct settings you can use Mac OS X's built-in FTP client.

• Open the Terminal application in the Utilities folder and enter ftp ftp.mydomain.com and press return (replace ftp.mydomain.com with your actual server name).

• Enter your user name and your password when the server requests it.
• Use the ls command to view the contents of the current directory and the cd dirname command to change to another subdirectory (replace dirname with the actual directory name).
• Using the cd command, navigate to the directory that should contain your auction images. cd .. brings you up one directory level. When you have reached your image directory, enter pwd command. The printed path is the value for the Image Path field in GaragSale.

For further diagnosis you can also enable FTP traffic logging in the Advanced section of the GarageSale Preferences panel. Before using the 'Test Settings' button from within GarageSale, open the Console application from your Utilities folder. When GarageSale performs its test you see a detailed listing of FTP commands that are being exchanged between GarageSale and your FTP server. This should help you sort out configuration problems.

Pathnames for photo files should not contain spaces. For example, the path http://domainname.com/directory/a photo will not preview in GarageSale. Instead, try http://domainname.com/directory/a_photo which should work.