Comments on: A short list of FTP programs

By: Matías

Matías — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:23:51 +0000

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

By: Freq

Freq — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:07:25 +0000

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.

By: potato

potato — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:46:33 +0000

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

By: cindy

cindy — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:35:28 +0000

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…

By: Freq

Freq — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:02:09 +0000

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.

By: Chris Tingom

Chris Tingom — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:57:02 +0000

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.

By: mark rush

mark rush — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:48:39 +0000

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

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:25:58 +0000

Is this list in order of most to least popular according to comments and feedback received?

By: Thomas M.

Thomas M. — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:24:52 +0000

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.