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MortimerJazz

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Oct 25, 2007
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Hi there,

I'm kind of new to Macs - I was hoping someone could recommend some (preferably free) FTP software.

Thanks alot
 
I found Cyberduck lacks advance options.

Filezilla is good (although it's not native to Mac)

I'd pay $18 and go for transmit if I were you.
 
I've been using Fetch for almost 10 years on the Mac.
The current version is about $15 and well worth it.
Custom Automator functions and Dashboard widget are included.
 
fireftp for firefox
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I agree with clevin - fireftp addon for fireFox is seriously cool! Who needs an extra app??
 
CyberDuck is pretty good. Its interface is different from the two-pane style I learned with WS_FTP on the PC. But I've adjusted and it works fine.

FireFTP for Firefox works well too, though I prefer using CyberDuck.
 
Chanabra said:
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Yeah, I'm with you.

I used to rely on Cyberduck, but whan that frelled up, on the worst possible moment, a couple of times I switched to Transmit. That $29.95 was well worth it. And it gave me a $10 discount on Coda later on, which was also nice. Still keep Cyberduck around as a backup ftp client, because it is, IMO still the best free one, but for day-to-day business Transmit is the best.

Oh, and to the OP, please search or browse a bit before starting new threads. Someone just might have asked very similar questions before, once or twice... ;)
 
Fugu provides a frontend for FTP, SFTP, and SCP. Free, lightweight, powerful.

I agree with clevin - fireftp addon for fireFox is seriously cool! Who needs an extra app??
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fireftp is a pretty good firefox plugin, but in my experience it left the browser feeling kind of bloated - it increased firefox's memory footprint by about a third, even when it wasn't in use.
 
What's wrong with Finder--->Go--->Connect to Server

and

System Preferences--->Sharing--->Remote Login + FTP Access?

Not enough features? Depends on what you do. I believe in simplicity. If you don't need an app to do something, don't install it. Often, installing 3rd party stuff merely adds unnecessary cruft to your system. Of course, if you need some special functionality that's not provided already under OS X, that's a different story.
 
OldCorpse said:
What's wrong with Finder--->Go--->Connect to Server

and

System Preferences--->Sharing--->Remote Login + FTP Access?

Not enough features? Depends on what you do. I believe in simplicity. If you don't need an app to do something, don't install it. Often, installing 3rd party stuff merely adds unnecessary cruft to your system. Of course, if you need some special functionality that's not provided already under OS X, that's a different story.
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You can't upload files through finder, unless I'm mistaken.
 
So would you say that the two best FTP w/ File Edit programs out there are Trasnmit and Yummy? If so - which do you feel is the better program?
 
I use Fetch exclusively, although Speed Download 5 has added FTP functionality. I haven't tested it yet but for $25 you get a download manager and FTP client all in one.
 
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