I was browsing through my files on my weather site space and noticed a collection of video's. They were all uploaded just a short time before I saw them. My first thought was, "Why are they here?" My second was, "How did they get here?"
A couple of days this week, I also got an email from WC warning that things were falling off the FTP train. "Files are being generated faster than they can be uploaded..." I didn't think much of those warnings until I saw those fairly large video files (24 on each upload!).
Even though I have a certificate claiming I have a degree in Accounting, I hadn't been able to put two and two together until seeing the extra files and the warnings.
While I can't use the "Additional Files" function to upload these vids, one can, even if accidentally, upload just about anything one might want by simply putting them in a certain folder. My WC prefs/On-Line->Main->Set HTML Source is a particular folder on the mac mini. I'm sure everyone else, with a website, has a similar path there. The fact is, that folder is exactly where I had told the converter app to place its converted QuickTime movies! WC then, dutifully Uploaded the html files, text, php
AND the MP4 files for me.
I changed the settings in the video converter app as that's just wasting bandwidth and storage space plus adding to the workload of WC. I have just verified what is probably in The Manual about this behavior. I created three useless little files, placed them in the WC Prefs specified folder and saw them uploaded to my web space in a few minutes. Those 24 video files were uploading every two minutes, in my case.
No wonder WC was complaining about its FTP workload! Sorry, Cat, it's my fault!