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What FTP Client?

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  • B Brady Kelly

    What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

    Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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    hammerstein05
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    Filezilla, it's a great tool, nice and easy and very very reliable

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    • B Brady Kelly

      What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

      Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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      leppie
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      • H hammerstein05

        Filezilla, it's a great tool, nice and easy and very very reliable

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        stephen hazel
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        I've noticed it has problems with file listings that are VERY VERY long. But other than that, it's the best. At least, best of the free.

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        • B Brady Kelly

          What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

          Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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          David Crow
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          I've used WS_FTP (ipswitch.com) for years. It did what I needed it to.

          "Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown

          "The brick walls are there for a reason...to stop the people who don't want it badly enough." - Randy Pausch

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          • B Brady Kelly

            What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

            Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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            Paul Watson
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            I second/third Filezilla (works on Mac OS now too.) I tried FireFTP awhile back. It seemed fine but I found having it part of Firefox just caused problems (accidental closing of tabs, other websites crashing Firefox and killing FireFTP and Firefox has never been fast to load so when I wanted to quickly FTP something it was quicker to fire up Filezilla.)

            cheers, Paul M. Watson.

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            • B Brady Kelly

              What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

              Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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              Lost User
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              Always does what it promises on Windows or Linux, good throughput.

              Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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              • B Brady Kelly

                What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                Paul Conrad
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                I use the free ftp client from www.coffeecup.com[^]. It does just fine for my needs.

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                • B Brady Kelly

                  What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                  Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                  kinar
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                  I used to use SmartFTP but they recently went shareware instead of freeware. It is still probably the best FTP client on the market if you don't mind payin a few bucks for it. Before that I used CuteFTP but abandoned it after finding SmartFTP and forgot about it when I was searching for a replacment the other day. I now use Filezilla which seems very good except I don't really like the way the queue works when you add directories (it searches each directory when adding and adds each file instead of just saying "when you want to transfer the queue, I'll grab every file that is there at the time"). It took me almost as much time to create my file queue as it did to actually transfer the files when I copied my website (which includes a phpbb install) to my local harddrive last weekend.

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                  • B Brady Kelly

                    What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                    Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                    Ed Poore
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                    The additional one is that there's a portable edition of FileZilla[^]

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                    • B Brady Kelly

                      What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                      Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                      Roger Wright
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                      Filezilla, hands down. :-D

                      "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                      • B Brady Kelly

                        What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                        Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                        Bassam Abdul Baki
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                        Have been using MicroFTP forages.

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                        • B Brady Kelly

                          What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                          Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                          NormDroid
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                          FileZilla.

                          Software Kinetics - Moving software

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                            Total Commander

                            xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
                            IronScheme - 1.0 beta 1 - coming soon
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                            rastaVnuce
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                            I second that.

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                            • B Brady Kelly

                              What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                              Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                              Stuart Dootson
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                              The 'ftp' command-line one that comes with Windows, OS X and *nix? Well, that's the one I use, anyway.

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                              • B Brady Kelly

                                What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                                Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                                Giannakakis Kostas
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                                http://winscp.net/eng/index.php[^] can be used as an FTP client.

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                                • B Brady Kelly

                                  Thanks, but I've just found FireFTP, which is a Firefox add-on. It seems pretty OK so far, but I've downloaded filezilla should I find prolems.

                                  Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                                  Kevin McFarlane
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                                  I use FireFTP too. Does the job. I also use FTP Explorer 1.0 (supplied free by my ISP years ago). Pretty old now but also does the job.

                                  Kevin

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                                  • B Brady Kelly

                                    What free FTP clients do you guys recommend?

                                    Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                                    paulcaseyjr
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                                    Something wrong with the cmd line ftp? Think that qualifies as free... :laugh:

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                                    • P paulcaseyjr

                                      Something wrong with the cmd line ftp? Think that qualifies as free... :laugh:

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                                      Brady Kelly
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                                      paulcaseyjr wrote:

                                      Something wrong with the cmd line?

                                      No.

                                      paulcaseyjr wrote:

                                      Something wrong with the cmd line ftp?

                                      Yes, it's bitch to use.

                                      Q: What is the difference between a pigeon and a merchant banker? A: A pigeon can still put a deposit on a Ferrari.

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                                      • G Giannakakis Kostas

                                        http://winscp.net/eng/index.php[^] can be used as an FTP client.

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                                        djenkins2604
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                                        I've been using WinSCP for ftp and sftp for a long time. Great client. Flash FXP would be my favorite commercial client.

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                                          Always does what it promises on Windows or Linux, good throughput.

                                          Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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                                          TheF0rmatter
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                                          Filezilla FTW - I just used it over the weekend to transfer close to 500 GB (yes, that is Gigabytes) from a customer site to our data center, several hundred thousand files in all. Great performance, very stable (had it up all weekend without any interruptions) and fast fast fast! I only wish it would allow more than 10 connections to the server because I filled all ten pretty quickly. I did get around the 10 connections limit by running multiple copies, but that's just not the same. I did notice that it couldn't transfer files when the full pathname of the file gets much above 200 characters, but a structure that long has other problems as well.

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