[X4U] FTP Application Survey

[Nick Scalise]

On Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at 11:41AM, revDAVE <coolcat at hostalive.com> wrote:

>I would like to take a quick survey to find out what your favorite FTP
>application is such as ... Finder - Fetch - Transmit - Interarchy - Cute FTP
>etc.
>
>Personally - I am currently using transmit but many of the applications seem
>to have their own set of drawbacks...
>
>- For example -  transmit bookmarks to not automatically sort -  which can
>definitely be a problem when you have a ton of them ( such as a Web host
>might have). 
>
>Interarchy works well - but has one annoying feature -  when you up load
>from the server to your personal machine - it will not overwrite the old
>files - and simply rename them like myfile#1 myfile#2 etc... This is crazy
>and totally silly for Web programmers who rely on the file names for
>reference links. And in a professional situation working with multiple
>designers ... It would be common practice to grab the newest files from the
>Web...  I wrote to the owner - and he said he would not ever change this
>feature ... go figure...

I use Terminal.app for ftp sessions. It's not as intuitive, but it is cheap and available on Windows too.

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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at mac.com