Uploading and downloading files to your Purdue home directory using a Macintosh

Authored by Tracy Clark

Basics

If you would like to work on documents such as your course website at home, or if you are working on a Mac on campus that is not connected to the PUCC network, you can access your Purdue career account using an FTP program. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and FTP programs will let you copy documents from your home computer to the Purdue servers, or from the Purdue servers to your home computer. When you want to get files from your career account, this is called downloading a file or "getting" a file. When you want to put files from your home computer into your career account, this is called uploading a file or "putting" a file.

This documentation will cover how to use a FTP program called Fetch to upload and download files to and from your Purdue career account from your home Macintosh computer. (If you would like PC documentation, that is also available.) You can download Fetch 5 (for Mac OS X 10.2.4 and later, including Tiger) by clicking on this link and it will unstuff itself automatically.You can then follow the instructions in the Fetch folder to install the software on your system.

Connecting to Your Purdue Account

Double click on the Fetch icon.

Click on the File menu and select New Connection.

A dialogue box should appear and prompt you for host, user id, and password

Enter icdftp.cc.purdue.edu for the host.

Enter your career account login for the user id.

Enter your career account password for the password.

Click OK. Fetch will establish a connection and you will be able to see a list of the files and folders in your account.

Getting/Downloading a File

To "Get" or download a file, first locate the file that you want to download. If it is inside another directory,you can open up a directory by double-clicking on the folder icon which has the name of the directory you want to open.

Click on the file you wish to download and then click on the "Get File" button. (If you want to download multiple fiiles, hold down shift and click on all the files you want to download, then click on the Get File button.)

A dialogue box will appear: select where you want to save the file on your home machine.

Click the Save button.

Putting/Uploading a File

To put a file, make sure that your FTP client is displaying the directory that you want to put the file into. For example, if you want to upload web pages, you will want to open up your WWW directory. You can open up a directory by double-clicking on it.

To "Put" a file into your career account, click on the "Put File" button.

A dialogue box will appear; locate and select the file you want to upload.

Click the Open button. A dialogue box will appear.

2.Click the OK button. the upper right-hand corner of the file list dialogue box, information on the status of the transfer will appear