gosherin

okay, after much delibaration with someone from my server- it just won’t work. I could upload other files, just ont the WordPress ones. maybe the files are corrupted… I don’t know. I doubt that, though. she could upload wordpress files from her end just fine, but I still have the same problem. according to my host, my last resort is to beg somebody to install it for me. does anybody offer to install WordPress for people? I could pay them, of course.

okay, I will, thanks so much for your help.

yes, when I delete the files, they do appear to go away.

I’m not sure about your second question.
When I try again, a “file already exists” window comes up and asks if I want to overwrite a file, say, wp-admin/admin.php even though it’s been deleted.

I’ve tried both SmartFTP and Filezilla multiple times on two different computers. Same sort of thing happens every time. :/ Ughh, I’ve been slaving over my computer trying to get this to work for about 3 days. Is there any thing else I can do?

sure, sorry, I must have misunderstood.
the files I have problems with are NOT really 0-byte files.
only after they’re uploaded, they show up as 0-byte, when they actually shouldn’t be.
I hope that’s more helpful.

it appears to just be the 0-byte files. when I delete some and go to reupload them, or even when I completely start over (delete wordpress and reupload everything) a “file already exists” window pops up in Filezilla for the 0-bytes. but some files have worked just fine.

okay, I do see a lot of things I uploaded are 0-byte files. I see now what the problem is. I’ve tried to redo everything, even deleted wordpress and downloaded it again, but I have the same problem each time I upload. do you know what I should do?