Using Internet Explorer to move files between computers.
Tech Tips from CSU Long Beach
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Welcome to TechTips episode eighteen. Today I'd like to talk about using Internet Explorer to move files between your home computer and a remote computer. I'm Walter Gajewski from the California State University, Long Beach. Lately, there seems to be more interest in moving files out to a remote computer. These files are usually web pages, podcasts, audio or video files, digital photographs, and MS Word or PDF text documents. It used to be the case that, to do this, a person needed a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program. On a PC, WS_FTP is a popular FTP program. Mac users have several FTP programs to choose from, the most popular being “Fetch.” Robust web page authoring programs, like Dreamweaver from Adobe, have an FTP function built right in. But things have changed for the better now that Internet Explorer can be used as an FTP application. Let's take a look at how we might use Internet Explorer (version 7) to move files from your home computer out to your web account on the web ser