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mspeir
  Mon Nov 3 16:47:06 2025 -0800
removing references to hgdownload-euro, refs #35031

diff --git src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/ftp.html src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/ftp.html
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--- src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/ftp.html
+++ src/hg/htdocs/goldenPath/help/ftp.html
@@ -3,39 +3,36 @@
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 <h1>Downloading data</h1>
 
 <h2>Rsync (recommended method)</h2>
 <p>
 We recommend that you download data via rsync using the command line, especially for large 
 files using the North American or European download servers.</p>
 <p> 
 For example, when downloading files to your present directory (./), use an expression such 
 as:</p> 
 <pre><code>rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/uniprot/unipAliTrembl.bb ./</code></pre> 
-<pre><code>rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/uniprot/unipAliTrembl.bb ./</code></pre> 
 <p> 
 To download the entire directory (note the trailing slash), use an expression such as:</p>
 <pre><code>rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/uniprot/ ./</code></pre> 
-<pre><code>rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/uniprot/ ./</code></pre> 
 <p>
 To obtain a file's location (URL) to use with 
-rsync (<em>rsync://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/...</em> or
-<em>rsync://hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu/...</em>), navigate in your browser to our FTP site at 
+rsync (<em>rsync://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/...</em>), navigate in your browser to our FTP site at 
 <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/" target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/</a> or our 
 downloads page at <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/" 
 target="_blank">http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html</a>, and look for your file of 
 interest. To learn more about rsync's options, type &quot;man rsync" on the command line.</p>
 
 <h2>Downloading from a web browser</h2>
 <p> 
 If you are not comfortable using the command line, you can download your file via FTP in your 
 browser at <a href="ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath" 
 target="_blank">ftp://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/goldenPath</a>, or from our downloads page at  
 <a href="http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/" 
 target="_blank">http://hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu/downloads.html</a>.</p> 
 <p> 
 However, downloading via your browser will be very slow or may even time out for large files (i.e., 
 bigBed, bigWig, BAM, VCF, etc.).  Also, Safari does not support FTP inside the browser. When you 
@@ -43,27 +40,24 @@
 before a FTP file system will open in a window on your desktop.</p> 
 
 <h2>FTP from the command line</h2> 
 <p>
 <em><strong>We do not encourage the use of FTP for downloading large data files</strong></em>. 
 Rsync is a more efficient and convenient transport mechanism, and is therefore quicker and easier to
 use for downloading our data files. However, here are the command line steps for FTP, should you 
 choose to use it: 
 </p><pre><code>$ ftp hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu
 Name: anonymous
 Password: &lt;your email address&gt;
 ftp&gt; cd goldenPath
 ftp&gt; cd &lt;assembly name&gt; (e.g., hg19)
 ftp&gt; cd &lt;data directory&gt; (e.g., liftOver)</code></pre> 
 <p>
-The same ftp connection can also be made to our European server:
-</p><pre><code>$ ftp hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu</code></pre>
-<p>
 To download multiple files from the UNIX ftp command line, use the &quot;mget&quot; command. You may
 want to use the <code>prompt</code> command to toggle the interactive mode if you do not want to be
 prompted for each file that you download.</p>
 <pre><code>ftp&gt; mget [filename1] [filename2] ...</code></pre>
 <p>
 Or to download all the files in the directory:</p>
 <pre><code>ftp&gt; mget -a</code></pre> 
 
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