ASCII or Binary

[Bob Isaac]

Is the .acd snapshot file ASCII or Binary for upload settings?

Bob

[Bruce]

Hi Bob,

What exactly do you want to do? The snapshot *.acd is in a compressed zipped format and can be uploaded to a server anyway. On the other hand when Actinic is uploading to the server the mode needs to be ASCII.

Kind regards,

[Bob Isaac]

I want our secretary to keep a snapshot on our server for safe keeping, so I need to know if it should be uploaded as ASCII or Binary.

Bob

[Nadeem]

Hi Bob,

The Actinic snapshot file is a binary file, so you should upload it as binary. If you were to upload it as an ASCII file, it will get corrupted.

Kind Regards

[Bruce]

That is correct. Thanks Nadeem, was about to post an amendment to the previous post but you beat me to it.

[Bob Isaac]

That is what I suspected, thanks for confirming.

Bob

[NormanRouxel]

Make sure you upload the file with a name known only to you. Otherwise you might expose your entire customer database to the world (and even worse, the Data Protection Registrar).

[pinbrook]

or upload it to a very top level where the public do not stray

[Bob Isaac]

It is in a high level directory that is also pw protected.

Bob