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tommyrot - Nov 02, 2005 5:28:42 pm PST #5416 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Cyberduck broke every website I uploaded files to.

Do you know what (specifically) the duck did? That seems odd to me. Some sort of permissions issue?


Jessica - Nov 02, 2005 5:30:11 pm PST #5417 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have no clue. No other FTP program I've used has ever had this problem, and honestly, Cyberduck wasn't worth the effort to figure it out.


§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 5:30:50 pm PST #5418 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Well, the duck let me upload a JPG of Paul Walker just fine, so we're on speaking terms for the nonce.


Cass - Nov 02, 2005 5:47:39 pm PST #5419 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I'm a fan of Transmit.
Me too. Fetch, if I have to though.


DXMachina - Nov 02, 2005 6:07:02 pm PST #5420 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I use WS_FTP for Windows. The freeware version does everything I need it to do.


Consuela - Nov 02, 2005 6:19:00 pm PST #5421 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I use CoffeeCup DirectFTP at home. At work we don't have dedicated FTP software, we just use IE. Works well enough, given that most of our clients that we need to FTP with aren't very sophisticated.


Gris - Nov 02, 2005 7:11:25 pm PST #5422 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Yeah, I've never found a free GUI FTP client on OS X that serves me well. Cyberduck works, sort of, but not very well, and most others cost (though not too much, and if I did lots of ftp work I'd buy Transmit in a second).

The built-in ftp program for OS X has remote tab completion, though, so I'm okay using it most of the time. And I've also installed ncftp on the command line, which is even better (local AND remote tab completion! Easy to save bookmarks to various sites! And so forth!)


§ ita § - Nov 02, 2005 7:12:22 pm PST #5423 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

ncftp's not bad, although I've only used it in Linux. I quite liked it.


Gris - Nov 02, 2005 7:22:48 pm PST #5424 of 10003
Hey. New board.

Yeah, when I first realized that I could install a command-line program for ftp that had many useful features was a great day for me.

Now, of course, I open up my Terminal once a week at the most (and that's usually just to run "cal" because i'm too lazy to open a GUI calendar program. If I install Tiger on this laptop, the dashboard calendar will remove even that need.) But once, I was truly a geek. Once.


Eddie - Nov 02, 2005 7:29:40 pm PST #5425 of 10003
Your tag here.

I did not know IE had its own FTP business. Just, you type ftp.blahblah.com into the URL space?

To answer the question for the record, the syntax is

ftp://ftp.blahblah.com