Using WinZip, is there anyway to extract and overwrite just the newer files on a remote FTP server

Question

I have a zip of a pretty large website. I FTP the zip over to the server and then unzip it and extract to the website folder but this is very slow.

Is there anyway to just extract and copy the files that are newer (compared to all files)

Shevek · Accepted Answer · 2010-06-07T13:05:15.483

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Is there a specific reason to upload a ZIP then decompress?

I use Beyond Compare which has a built in FTP engine to compare my local web source directory to the FTP remote directory.

This highlights which files have changed and I only upload those.

FileZilla is a free FTP client which also has a directory comparison feature

edited Jun 07 '10 at 13:05

answered Jun 07 '10 at 12:59

Shevek

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 23 '11 at 06:46

My favorite is FileZilla due to its advanced file and directory comparison. This is great to use if you do not have shell access to the server and cannot extract files using specified switches for "tar" or "unzip".

When transferring files

Select the "Overwrite if source newer" radio button
Select "Always use this action" if you are going to use this on a daily basis or maybe just for the current upload queue.

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Using WinZip, is there anyway to extract and overwrite just the newer files on a remote FTP server

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