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All of a sudden I am getting "?" marks on the server side folders. Why and how to fix?

Always been that way. Until server directories are visited, their state is unknown, depicted by question marks. Once you visit a directory,the ? sign will be replaced with the true state.

I must have hit some key or sum'in because they just appeared two days ago. However, following your response I opened all folders with the "?" and once opened the "?" disappeared. Thank you. Want to give you a favorable and thank you credit for the record but I am unable to find a hyperlink to do so.

boco wrote: ↑

2019-12-13 06:47

Always been that way. Until server directories are visited, their state is unknown, depicted by question marks. Once you visit a directory,the ? sign will be replaced with the true state.

I opened every folder on the server side thereby removing the "?'s" one at a time. Closed Filezilla. Open Filezilla. The "?'s" have returned for each folder.

I opened every folder on the server side, which deleted the "?" one at a time. Closed Filezilla. Opened Filezilla. All "?'s" have returned.

As I said, that's always been this way, as FTP servers don't reveal contents of subdirectories until you visit them (listings always are for the current directory only).

Once you visit a directory in a session, the state/contents are cached, for a while. Closing FileZilla ends the session and clears the cache. Thus, the subdirectories' state returns to Unknown/Not visited yet.

Just one of the peculiarities of FTP.