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Good FTP client on XP?
Hi. I've just purchased a new laptop, and am in the process of transfering all my stuff over to it. A problem I have noticed, is thatCuteFTP Pro 3.1 keeps freezing. Its not a case of the laptop (its a 2.5 Athlon). The laptop doesn't seem to freeze when CuteFTP is closed.

Does anyone know of a good (free if possible) FTP client? It needs some form of text editing option in it (for editing Perl/PHP./HTML files in real time) .... I've tried WS_FTP but it is just so tacky, and doesn't have half of the features I need.

Any advice is most welcome.

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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
Have you tried filezilla. I realy like it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
I've said it before and I'll say it again....AbsoluteFTP from vandyke.com

It is the best I've found...clean and professional. The only feature missing was recursive chmodding and so I wrote to the company and they implemented the feature and as a thankyou they sent me the alpha version of the new release with my feature request implemented Cool
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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
I've said it before and I'll say it again....AbsoluteFTP from vandyke.com

It is the best I've found...clean and professional. The only feature missing was recursive chmodding and so I wrote to the company and they implemented the feature and as a thankyou they sent me the alpha version of the new release with my feature request implemented Cool
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Re: [Paul] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
Thanks guys. I've downloaded AbsoluteFTP, and it doesn't seem to be freezing the OS :)

The one thing I'm not so comfortable with, is that you don't seem to be able to transfer files from the server to the desktop, and vice-versa (i.e there is no transfer button). You have to right click the appropriate files, and then manually select where you want to upload to Frown

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I'm fond of FTP Voyager.

http://www.ftpvoyager.com/
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Re: [ArmyAirForces] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
Core FTP

http://www.coreftp.com

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I'm fond of FTP Voyager.

http://www.ftpvoyager.com/

I tried that not so long ago... but it seemed pretty slow to me (took up to 3 times longer than CuteFTP) Unsure

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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
Slow to what, download and upload? That would be odd.
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Both.
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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
That is strange. Moving files w/ my version has no such problems, peaking right at my bandwidth capacity.
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Re: [ArmyAirForces] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
Are you on XP?

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Yes


Check out the testing and tweaking tools at http://www.broadbandreports.com

Make sure your system isn't choking you off.

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ArmyAirForces: Aug 14, 2003, 11:15 AM
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I'm only on dialup Frown (good old UK)

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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
I just found this program called EFTP:

http://www.eftp.org

Still trying to figure out how it works, but it seems pretty interesting. Claims to encrypt everything, including directory structure.

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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
Drop FTP, use SSH instead. =) WinSCP is quite nice for a ftp like replacement.

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Re: [Alex] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
Not much fun when you have to upload and download literally hudreds of files a day...even *with* my fast typing Tongue

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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
WinSCP will do what you want. Or use rz/sz to send files across via raw ssh (you can send multiple at a time).

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Re: [Andy] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
FWIW - I'm still using ws_ftp le (for win95/98/nt) and it works perfectly fine on XP (so far....).
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Re: [Watts] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
same here. it does suck sometimes though.

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Re: [fuzzy logic] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
I hate WS_FTP's GUI Frown

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Really... It's the only one I've ever used so I guess I don't know what I'm missing. My only complaint is not being able to delete remote directories that aren't entirely empty.
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Re: [Watts] Good FTP client on XP? In reply to
>>>My only complaint is not being able to delete remote directories that aren't entirely empty. <<<

You get that problem with any FTP client. Its normally due to .htaccess / .htpasswd files Frown

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