"?" marks on files on server end

[goatfarmer98]

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

[boco]

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.

[goatfarmer98]

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.

[goatfarmer98]

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.

[goatfarmer98]

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

[boco]

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.