The problem that BAMA has with Internet Explorer is that it doesn't
return accurate and informative error messages. Where Mozilla and
Opera will tell you that the maximum number of connections have been
made to the ftp site and to try again later, IE just says "The page
cannot be displayed" and then gives you some very misleading
information, "The page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may
need to adjust your browser settings." There are no difficulties with
the web site and there's nothing wrong with your browser settings.
It's just that there are 10 users connected to BAMA, that's all that's
allowed, and you are number 11!

While the methods described here all work, including "drag and drop,"
there are occasionally other problems that seem to plague IE users
that Opera and Mozilla (Netscape) users don't complain about.

While BAMA started out on my office PC, it is now on a much larger and
much faster box. Four Pentium-4 Xeon Processors at 2.4 GHz under one
Gigabyte of RAM and 100+ Gigs of hardware RAID - vs. the older 400 MHz
Pentium II with 128 megs. So that we don't lose anything again, (once
is enough!) BAMA is backed up nightly on a 4-terabyte capacity robotic
tapeloader on site as well as the backups that I keep locally.
Currently, BAMA takes up almost 7GB of storage space containing 25,946
files in 2,515 folders...and still growing! So, suitable mirror sites
are probably few and far between.

Ken K4XL - Replace "invalid" with "net" to reply.
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