FTP'ing Compressed Folders?

[troyal]

I'm gathering from my research that I can't FTP a compressed/ZIP folder from my computer on to a server using Filezilla. Am I correct?

If this isn't possible, are there recommendations of ways to do this using another source? I have a 300 MB folder that i need to get to my coworker as soon as possible this week ...

Thanks!

TR

[boco]

ZIP is a file, not a directory, though Windows tells you differently.

If the target server runs a FTP server, you can transfer your ZIP files like any other files.

[troyal]

Windows describes it as a "Compressed (zipped) Folder"- is that something different? the name of my folder has a .zip at the end.

[da chicken]

A "Compressed Folder" is not a folder (directory) at all. It's a data archive file. It is a .zip file like the kind you might use with WinZip. Windows XP and Vista try to make the user think that .zip files are interacted with just like a folder, but they're not really true folders at all.

[troyal]

so then, if my ".zip" is a file, then it should have transferred like a file. But it didn't. Why? Probably b/c my target server run an FTP server?

tr

[boco]

Without the target machine running a FTP server, you can't FTP files at all. There has to be a FTP (or SFTP) Server. Your ZIP file should transfer like any other file. If it didn't, reproduce the problem and post the logs here (debug lv3).