Title: FTP sometimes changes file
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# FTP sometimes changes file

 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-sometimes-changes-file/)
 * I use Filezilla for my ftp and to edit files I have them open in Notepad. Occasionally
   when I try to access the file again, after re-uploading, it won’t work and when
   I view it again all of the line breaks are gone. It doesn’t happen all the time
   or even most of the time and it seems really random. Does anyone know why this
   might happen, and if this would be a filezilla problem or a notepad problem? 
   It’s really annoying. It just totally borked my index.php. 🙁
 * Oh cool, edit is back!

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-sometimes-changes-file/#post-161035)
 * I have used SmartFTP and Windows Explorer (just type in ftp://yourwebsiteaddress.
   com and then when the password and user name comes up, fill it in and you have
   a familiar file manager in front of you – it’s slow but works) for years. I had
   this happen with other FTP programs, including a highly promoted and well used
   one (unmentionable) which totally whacked out a bunch of my files. I don’t know
   anything about Filezilla, but this has been known to happen.
 * Make sure you save the files in a totally TEXT editor, but watch the size of 
   the window when you are saving in Notepad. I’ve found that it likes to cut things
   off at the “margins” of the screen width, which causes havoc with some things,
   annoyances with others. So keep the window maximized or at least really wide.
 * And where is edit….here, edit, edit, edit….I haven’t seen it. Where did it go?
   Where did it go? Duh huh?
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-sometimes-changes-file/#post-161036)
 * There it is…just goes to prove, the squealling wheel….
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-sometimes-changes-file/#post-161041)
 * Are you overwriting the files? Overwriting files via FTP can lead to incomplete
   transfers. Delete the old file, then upload the new file.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ftp-sometimes-changes-file/#post-161041)
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