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7.4.13.1 Using FTP to Recover Lost Photos

If you have unfortunately lost all of your photos on your hard drive, but those photos are stored on Fotki, it is possible to download them back to your computer from fotki.com with the folder structure created there.

For that purpose, you can use any FTP client (FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol). fotki.com supports both uploading and downloading photos via FTP.

  • For both Windows and Mac computers you may try FileZilla, it's pretty easy and free to use.
  • There are other FTP clients available over the internetl, please feel free to try those

Once the program is installed, start it and create a new connection to Fotki FTP server: ftp.fotki.com
Use your Fotki username and password to login.

Note: Fotki FTP server supports only 2 concurrent connections. Please make sure that your FTP client configured to establish max 2 connections at a time.


Written on 2004-12-14 06:58:03 and updated on 2025-02-20 17:36:00.