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I did not know IE had its own FTP business. Just, you type ftp.blahblah.com into the URL space?
I think that other depts. must use FTP a lot more often than we do, so there is surely an FTP client around somewhere. But, the software installation for our group is so wonky that I am the only one with Acrobat Pro, while my colleague down the hall is the only one with Illustrator Pro. Is he an illustrator? No. Am I a big fan of PDFs? No.
Actually most of the FTP-ers are likely Mac users, and a whole group works in Quark. My group doesn't deal with the Quark group directly, most of the time; they have an intermediary that translates Quark back into normal desktop-talk.
I've heard that if you're FTPing big files, the transfer is more likely to crap out if you're using a browser instead of a dedicated FTP client. I heard this years ago, so I have no idea if it's still true.
I've used some nice Linux GUI FTP clients, but if I'm on a PC or a Mac I usually use the command-line ftp program (because I haven't found decent free GUI FTP clients for PC or Mac).
'Scuse the interruption, since I so seldom post, but CuteFTP and SmartFTP are good and cheap graphical ftp clients and easily found on the web. That said, InterSoft's graphical ftp client bundled with their SmartTerm terminal emulator is the One True Client....
t back to lurkage mode
CuteFTP drives me nuts. I ended up buying WSFTP for my PC. Haven't settled on something for the Mac yet -- still use commandline here.
Have you tried Cyberduck? I have not. [link]
I'm morally opposed to spending $ on an FTP program. Dunno why - it just seems to me that FTP programs should be free.
On the Mac, I really used to like Fetch when it was free....sigh.
Have you tried Cyberduck?
Well, it passes the "cute name" test. Open source too.
support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.
Cool. I'll have to give it a try.
What's Bonjour?
Filezilla for the PC does everything I've needed: [link]
I get fucking tired of the typing. And I do a lot of updating of all those provocateuse sites -- not only do I need to be able to keep locations in synch, I need to be able to quickly navigate directory trees and identify the next available filename in a sequence.
So I mostly do that work from the PC. But now I'm going to try the duck. Thanks, DCJ!
