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Monthly Updates

To update your own local copy of FOTW, determine when your copy was last updated (check the date on the index.html file). If it was updated last month, you need only do step 1 here, if more than one month's update is required, do step 2 as necessary. If you wish to delete files that are now inoperative in the directory, go to step 3.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if you require more than one month's update, be sure to update the oldest material first (i.e., do step 2 first).

STEP 1
To update with the past month's material only:

All zip files are provided with path information included. If you have "Use folder names" checked, they will automatically unzip into the /flags/, /images/, /misc/ folders and sub-folders. You simply need to download the files and unzip them into your FOTW directory.

Material from March 2014:

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STEP 2
To update with material from previous months:

Material from February 2014:

Material from January 2014:

Material from December 2013:

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STEP 3
To clean up your directories by removing deleted files. The following text files contain lists of files that became inoperative in the past few months. These can be safely deleted from your local copy - but do be careful about file names. File xx-yyyyy.gif may be dead, but replaced by file xx_yyyyy.gif. Instructions for programmed deletion are contained in each file:


Full Site Download

You can obtain the entire contents of FOTW using the following zip files. These files will provide you with FOTW up to the end of March 2014.

Download and unzip the following files into your FOTW directory (the zip files contain path information that will automatically unzip them into a folder called 'flags'):

Download and unzip the following files into your FOTW directory (the zip files contain path information that will automatically unzip them into a folder called 'images', split into 26 sub-folders, a, b, c,...z)

Download and unzip the following file into your FOTW directory (this zip file contains path information that will automatically unzip them into a folder called 'misc'):

Once you have unzipped all the files, go to FOTW/flags/index.html and enjoy the flags. To keep your local copy of FOTW up to date, come back here monthly to receive updates (described above). These updates are generally provided about the beginning of the month.