A short list of FTP programs

9 Comments By Chris Tingom on June 12, 2006

Thanks to everyone who commented and left feedback about what FTP program they use.

Windows

Mac

*NIX

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  • Comment posted by Thomas M.
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  • Didn’t get a chance last week to add my ftp for the Mac … surprised that no one added it – CaptainFTP. It’s an App that I’ve used since 2002, I believe.

    While the interface could use a bit of a re-design, I’ve never had any issues with it and has all the features I’ve ever needed.

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 6:24 am

  • Comment posted by Scott
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  • Is this list in order of most to least popular according to comments and feedback received?

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 6:25 am

  • Comment posted by mark rush
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  • i use FTP surfer, its amazingly quick (but doesnt allow live editing – at least my dev team are happy about that cuz im always changing stuff live and now backing it up on the local server)

    Mark

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 6:48 am

  • Comment posted by Chris Tingom
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  • They’re actually not listed in any order. I should’ve put numbers next to them based on preferences though.

    I’ll update the list with any additional programs people name in the comments.

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 7:57 am

  • Comment posted by Freq
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  • Maybe someone can tell me why you’d need external FTP programs? Unless I’m missing something all you need is a way to get files to/from a server.

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 10:02 am

  • Comment posted by cindy
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  • Technically, the FireFTP/firefox extension won’t be limited by operating system, so it probably shouldn’t be under “Windows”.

    Thanks for the tip though, I’ll be checking it out…

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 11:35 am

  • Comment posted by potato
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  • @FREQ – some of us don’t like command line FTP and aren’t near our servers enough to walk the data over via disk

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 1:46 pm

  • Comment posted by Freq
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  • Potato: That’s not what I ment. In the other post I mentioned I ues IE to do all my FTPing because all I need is file uploading. I ment ‘external’ to be ‘not part of Windows, natively’. The only reason I can think of is secure FTP.

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 2:07 pm

  • Comment posted by Matías
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  • For Linux almost any file manager can do FTP (Konqueror, Nautilus, even Midnight Commander). You can always use command-line lftp of course.

The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2006 at 10:23 pm

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