MP Help - Importing through FTP on a Mac

[Pyser]

hey all. i think i remember reading somewhere that people were having problems getting the ftp to work on a mac in MP leagues. did anyone figure out a workaround?

i can export, but cant import. i'm assuming it has to do with different file paths on a mac than a pc, but i honestly have no idea.

anyone?

[digamma]

What are you using to run the game?

The common problem a number of us were having involved the Crossover program, which works great to find the game, but the FTP import was not getting to the right file location. To my knowledge, none of the three or four of us known to be running Crossover had figured out a way to redirect the files correctly.

[Pyser]

im using wine

ben posted the path that the ftp tries to import to, and basically, i dont have a "roaming" folder. the rest is the same. i'm guessing that's the hangup.

[Pyser]

it is slightly odd that there's no way in the ftp to designate our own path where we want the files imported.

[chinaski]

What if you just create the all the folders off of the root of the c: drive? C:\Users\pyser\AppData\Roaming\Solecismic Software\Front Office Football Seven\leagues\ccflccfl

[Ben E Lou]

Y'know, given the way that FTP works in FOF, there *is* a workaround if you can't get the automation to work. It's a bit of a pain, to be sure, but you could use an FTP program that has bookmarks to grab the files from the server and stick them where FOF7 can read them.

[Ben E Lou]

(Actually come to think about it, that workaround isn't really any more work than the old download/unzip method from FOF2K4 and FOF2K7; it's just more than FOF7.)

[Pyser]

thats good news. off to google how to do that

[nflchampion]

Honestly, the easiest way I've found is just to grab the league file, extract it, and place it in your league folder within your c: bottle. For whatever reason, exports will work while imports will not. Pretty small issue so long as you can pretty easily grab a copy of the most recent league file.

[Pyser]

Honestly, the easiest way I've found is just to grab the league file, extract it, and place it in your league folder within your c: bottle. For whatever reason, exports will work while imports will not. Pretty small issue so long as you can pretty easily grab a copy of the most recent league file.

yes, fof2k7 style. assuming thats what the ftp thing ben is talking about does

[Ben E Lou]

thats good news. off to google how to do thatThere's not a ton to setting it up. I use the free version of CoreFTP.

Core FTP - download software (http://www.coreftp.com/download.html)

Here's a screen shot of the program.

http://www.fof-ihof.com/upload/Ben%20E%20Lou/ftp_program.png

You go to Sites-->Site Manager, enter the FTP credentials, then use the right-side browser to browse to the folder you see over there in the screen shot, then the left browser to browse to wherever your ccfl league files are located. Then do Sites-->Bookmark. That will bookmark both folders. From then on, you just load up the bookmark. It'll browse to both folders, and you drag and drop the files from the right to the left. I'm sure most decent FTP programs work very similarly.

[Pyser]

that was easy. thanks!

[nflchampion]

I would recommend FileZilla as the best free FTP on Mac for this purpose.