One of my sites is a video site. It is starting to get large.
There is a subdirectory for each video. The subdirectory contains a bunch of miscellaneous files only a few of which are video files.
Follows is a list of the files and reasons for them which you can skip and still understand the problem
. Each subdirectory contains:- 1 Frames page - this is what opens when someone clicks on the menu.
- 1 html page which opens in the frame, with a cable/dsl/dialup menu
- 3 html pages which load into the frame and each calls the swf of the movie
- 3 each .swf .flv . fla
- 1 for script
- 2 for skins
So there are 17 files in each directory with only 3 ( the flv ) files being 99 % of the filesize.
A backup of the site is potentially huge and cumbersome. A synchronize from two different locations is even worse, (maybe impossible).
It would be so nice if I could backup the flv files once, and the rest of the site every time I make a change. What I would like to do is to get the flv files all into a single directory or even onto another website. The problem is that I have no clue how to do it.
I have tried to move the flv files using dreamweaver, and changing the "name" and "movie" by adding something like ../../newdir/ but that does not seem to work.
This has to be a problem to other webmasters. Any ideas? |
