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Jul 19, 2006, 11:35 AM
 
Hello. I do a lot of imaging and stuff like that, and need to FTP it onto my website. The problem is, there are no good FTP clients that are free for Mac that I can find ...

I use Fetch, but it takes forever to load, and is only good for transferring single small files. When I need to transfer a lot of files, I have to use Dreamweaver, which is a pain because there's no drag and drop, and you have to put all your files in ~/Sites/~

Anyone know of any good ones? I wish Finder's FTP extension allowed write access ... Is there any mod or something for that?


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Jul 19, 2006, 11:50 AM
 
I have been using cyberduck for the past few days and it's been fine.
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Jul 19, 2006, 11:50 AM
 
Not free, but I love Transmit.
     
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Jul 19, 2006, 12:07 PM
 
I've been using Fetch for years and have never had trouble with it. Perhaps some setting is wrong?

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Jul 19, 2006, 12:27 PM
 
Fetch crashes a lot, and has trouble connecting to my server. I downloaded a new version, maybe it'll be better.
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Jul 19, 2006, 12:46 PM
 
I'm a big fan of Transmit. Yah, it's $29.95, but it's a great application.

Fetch for me had major problems a while back (I don't think they jumped on OS X as fast as I would have liked). The OS X version, for me, didn't feel as rock solid as the OS 9 version. It would crash or not connect to servers (they very well could have fixed that problem). I also loved Cyberduck... but one of the updates just didn't work... and the next upgrade didn't work well either.

Transmit has been near perfect. The design is simply fantastic.
     
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Jul 19, 2006, 01:05 PM
 
Cyberduck is free and works for me. I upload an iweb site of several MB every week or two and I've never had any trouble.

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Jul 19, 2006, 01:08 PM
 
For what it's worth... I use FTP on a daily basis...
     
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Jul 20, 2006, 01:51 AM
 
hmm... I agree with cbk1994... although I plan on buying Transmit for FTPing my sites online, I do like to use my "projbacks" (Project Backups) directory, and having it work just like a finder window would be preferable.
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Jul 20, 2006, 03:53 AM
 
Originally Posted by cbk1994
Fetch crashes a lot, and has trouble connecting to my server. I downloaded a new version, maybe it'll be better.
What version are you using? I too have been a satisfied Fetch user for years, and to the best of my recollection I have never had a serious problem with it.

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