I second Filezilla. Its awesome! It does several flavors of SFTP as well.
Posted by Clint Ecker at September 4, 2004 6:07 PMJust got Filezilla and I do think I like it even better than SmarpFTP - thanks for the suggestion!
Posted by Luke Hutteman at September 4, 2004 7:46 PMFlashFXP is the best ftp program going around. I've used it for years. I used to use cute ftp, but this just blows everything else away.
Posted by Sean Malloy at September 5, 2004 8:29 AMFlashFXP gets my vote too. Got it about 2 years ago and never looked back. I liked FlashFXP so much I registered it and still use it today. No other FTP program I've seen can touch it.
Posted by StOo at September 7, 2004 5:28 AMI don't know about the other FTP programs, but I think you are being a bit unfair to WS_FTP. If you don't want WS_FTP to steal focus, just turn off the option! Just go to:
Options > Transfers > [_] Display the transfer manager when transfer starts.
(I have no special interest or connection to WS_FTP. It's just that the program stands unjustly accused.)
jdh
Posted by JDH at September 7, 2004 10:45 AMEither my version of WS_FTP is old or this is a Pro feature only (I used LE), but I there is no transfers tab in my options dialog. Either way, "when the transfer starts" should IMHO be when you start the directory transfer, not every individual file in that directory.
Apart from this WS_FTP irritation, I've also found features like the directory treeview (both local and remote) and queued downloads in both SmartFTP and FileZilla that were sorely missing in WS_FTP, so I won't be returning to WS_FTP...
Posted by Luke Hutteman at September 8, 2004 12:21 AMWell, yes, I do use WS_FTP Pro. You didn't say you were using the LE free version. Here are the WS_FTP LE specific instructions:
Options > "Session" tab > [_] Show transfer progress dialog
So, as an owner of WS_FTP Pro, I'd like to know which features you think are "sorely" missing. I'd would really like to compare.
jdh
Posted by jdh at September 8, 2004 9:22 AMI've never used WS_FTP Pro, but my comment above mentioned two features not present in WS_FTP LE that are available in SmartFTP and FileZilla (which are both free for non-commercial use).
I noticed by the way that WS_FTP LE is no longer available and has been replaced with WS_FTP Home, which sports a much-improved user interface, but which is not free for non-commercial use anymore.
Posted by Luke Hutteman at September 8, 2004 11:22 AMI actually do still use WS_FTP, but only because I solve that problem differently: download mt-n.tar.gz, upload mt-n.tar.gz, tar -zxvf mt-n.tar.gz. No worries about text/binary, and it's a whole lot faster not having the FTP overhead of ten thousand separate files.
Posted by Phil Ringnalda at September 8, 2004 12:49 PMAnother vote for Filezilla. It's just not worth messin' around with WS_FTP's settings. (Another option is Windows' Web folders.)
Posted by Andrew Kantor at September 28, 2004 10:10 AMI have upgraded MovableType to the 3.11 version, today. I have already found two things that are 'busted', the TypeKey registration for comments (optional, for now) and the comment background. I'll be tinkering with that in the near future. If you find other broken things, PLEASE let me know. And thanks for coming. Update: TypeKey problem fixed (reading the directions helps). Now to teach myself CSS and troubleshoot new templates...
Update2: I (think) I've fixed the comment appearance. It still does one weird thing, but I can live with it. I hope you can, too.
If you like SmartFtp, you'll love FTP Voyager. I settled on that years ago, and recently had a problem that had me inspecting alternatives. I remember that SmartFtp sounded *real* good. But when I used it, the interface was nowhere near as intuitive or regular as FTP Voyager. So I went back to it, and happily found the solution to the problem I had been experiencing.
I'll just throw in another vote for FlashFXP...runs multiple instances, loads saved queues, and does all things a good FTP program should.
Posted by Joe Longpre at December 5, 2004 7:51 PMTry filezilla. I havn't used it much, but it seems pretty good. You can find it on sourceforge.
Posted by jarmb595 at December 10, 2004 7:39 PMI have recently switched to Filezilla. I tried it with many reservations but it is a better product than the last 3 (non-free as in beer, non-open source) FTP programs I have bought, amazingly enough.
Posted by Shannon J Hager at December 11, 2004 3:35 PM