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Mac Problems- FTP problem still happening.
beavotron
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Hey forum
I am having technical problems with my shitty ass macbook pro that i want to throw at a wall because it's not worth the money I paid for it.
Here is the problem: It randomly decided to stop letting me connect to my ftp server to upload shit to my web space.
fireftp gives no error, textwrangler gives "MacOS error -3221", which when I look up on mac's website does not seem to exist
Can someone help me before I waste a bunch of money by throwing this piece of expensive crap off the deck?
and telling me to buy a pc won't help cause i have one, it's just in storage and i already spent the money on this one
thanks, and
I am having technical problems with my shitty ass macbook pro that i want to throw at a wall because it's not worth the money I paid for it.
Here is the problem: It randomly decided to stop letting me connect to my ftp server to upload shit to my web space.
fireftp gives no error, textwrangler gives "MacOS error -3221", which when I look up on mac's website does not seem to exist
Can someone help me before I waste a bunch of money by throwing this piece of expensive crap off the deck?
and telling me to buy a pc won't help cause i have one, it's just in storage and i already spent the money on this one
thanks, and
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EDIT: Okay, on second read, sounds like you're using OSX, not boot camping into Windows as I initially thought (forgot fireftp was multi-platform). Either way, is there a firewall enabled in OS X itself or at the network/router level?
i tried using OS's built in FTP and this time i got the error -36
which when i looked up on apple's website is I/O error (bummers)
i am this close to throwing it out the window i swear to god, i have never been so frustrated with a computer in my life.
Have you tried plugging directly into your cable/DSL modem, completely bipassing wifi/your router?
That is a smart idea
but the modem is in a room where our roomie is asleep
so instead I tried to connect to it from humble's mac and it turns out that it's giving me the same errors on his
so it must be something wrong with our internet connection or something
this is the part where i feel really dumb and apologize to my computer.
i'm sorry, apple face
While I don't have a solution to your problem and am unable to look into it further (as the internet is being extremely dodgey and it's time for bed anyway), I can give you one little tip which may or may not help you.
If in the future you're given an error code you can't find much on, you can grep /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/MacErrors.h for your error code to find out a bit more about it.
I grepped for 3221 and the result was thus:
kEINVALErr = -3221, /* Invalid argument */
I hope that can lead you to something a bit more helpful.
Try using Terminal to ftp to your ftp site and make it output in verbose mode. So, for example:
It may give you some insight as to what's going on, or might tell you where the connection failed (i.e. connected to the ftp site but the connection dropped, etc)
Most likely it will not work either with problem however perhaps you will get an error message you can google and find a solution to.
Alternatively, I guess it could be an issue at your host's end. Maybe check with them that they aren't experiencing problems and try to upload files through their browser-based FTP interface if they have one.
I tried using Terminal to connect to it and it seemed to work, but I don't know anything about terminal so I don't know how to access my directories and shit.
but using the built-in Mac FTP client times out and gives an error message, as does using FireFTP and CyberDuck
I plugged right into the modem to by-pass the router, same problem
i called my ISP, they don't know what's happening
I am confused, help me techy peoples!
If you can move around the FTP in terminal, then yeah something is up. But I'm wondering if you're simply getting the same sort of rejection via command line, but don't recognize it because you're unfamiliar?
Does your webhost provide an online file management page? Mine does, which is convenient when I need to do something but am not on my home computer (or when FTP is flipping out).
but i am still unable to connect through clients
weirdest fucking thing.
i am computer dumb
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So in Cyberduck, go Open Connection, pick your FTP server, and then click "more options." Change the Connect Mode to Active or Passive, and try that. If it doesn't work, try the other one.
If it used to work but no longer works, often that's because your web server changed something about its connection. Have you contacted whoever that is to see why you can't connect? They may have changed to SFTP or an active/passive connection.