Author Topic: What is the best FTP client these days? (Read 21036 times)

Pixart · « **on:** August 18, 2009, 14:51 »

What is a good free FTP software? I was just about to download Filezilla to my new computer. It's what I've always used - but thought it would be a good time to check if there is anything better I should look at. Also, what is a good site to download from? Thanks gang.

leaf · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2009, 15:47 »

i am using filezilla

hlth · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2009, 22:59 »

Smartftp has been a favorite of mine though I haven't used it in 2 years.

davey_rocket · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2009, 23:34 »

Quote from: leaf on August 18, 2009, 15:47

i am using filezilla

ditto

massman · « **Reply #4 on:** August 19, 2009, 05:47 »

I use Fire FTP for Firefox, nice and simple, no problems.

Gannet77 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 19, 2009, 06:56 »

FileZilla for me too, though like you I haven't really looked at any others for some time.

nialat · « **Reply #6 on:** August 19, 2009, 10:42 »

FileZilla is good and free but you can only upload to one site at once. This is why I bought SmartFTP, with it you can upload to many sites at the same time.

Usually I upload 10 to 15 files to 14 sites before I go to bed, and when I wake up everything is uploaded. It's only a matter of a few minutes on each site to complete the uploading process.

Edited ti add:

Oops, just notice that you were looking for a free FTP client. Before I bought SmartFTP I did some research and could not find a free one that had the multi connection option... this was the most important option in my case.

davey_rocket · « **Reply #7 on:** August 19, 2009, 11:03 »

Quote from: nialat on August 19, 2009, 10:42

Oops, just notice that you were looking for a free FTP client. Before I bought SmartFTP I did some research and could not find a free one that had the multi connection option... this was the most important option in my case.

I might be wrong, but when I was using FireFTP (free) I remember being able to upload to more than one site at once.

Pixart · « **Reply #8 on:** August 19, 2009, 11:18 »

Thanks nialat. I see that SmartFTP is only $36.95 though, so that is almost free. Uploading to more than one site at at time is a great feature.

goldenangel · « **Reply #9 on:** August 19, 2009, 12:41 »

I really like SmartFTP. Its multi upload feature is very useful.

epantha · « **Reply #10 on:** August 19, 2009, 12:46 »

Does anyone use Fetch? It's inexpensive and I've used it for many years on my Macs.

MikLav · « **Reply #11 on:** August 19, 2009, 13:32 »

I tried several and I happily use Filezilla for the last ~1.5 years

disorderly · « **Reply #12 on:** August 19, 2009, 13:48 »

I use Transmit on my Mac. Reasonably priced and works very well.

massman · « **Reply #13 on:** August 19, 2009, 14:25 »

Quote from: davey_rocket on August 19, 2009, 11:03

Quote from: nialat on August 19, 2009, 10:42

Oops, just notice that you were looking for a free FTP client. Before I bought SmartFTP I did some research and could not find a free one that had the multi connection option... this was the most important option in my case.

I might be wrong, but when I was using FireFTP (free) I remember being able to upload to more than one site at once.

Yes, you can have up to 10 concurrent transfers.

hlth · « **Reply #14 on:** August 19, 2009, 21:11 »

Quote from: Pixart on August 19, 2009, 11:18

Thanks nialat. I see that SmartFTP is only $36.95 though, so that is almost free. Uploading to more than one site at at time is a great feature.

I had mentioned SmartFTP above, but based on that last quote of yours, you might want to try http://www.isyndica.com/photos

Pixart · « **Reply #15 on:** August 19, 2009, 21:37 »

I ftp to several local printers, it looks like Isyndica doesn't work outside of their agency list. Although it looks fantastic, I'm not a huge uploader so $9.95 per month vs free doesn't make sense right now (especially when FT is going to reject everything I send anyway

). Somtimes though I say, man oh man I should just shoot stock for a living and give up this chasing invoices and wiping little soccer star's noses. If that day comes, I would go for Isyndica!

hlth - if you have an affiliate code you should post it here for Isyndica.

hlth · « **Reply #16 on:** August 20, 2009, 01:42 »

Quote from: Pixart on August 19, 2009, 21:37

I ftp to several local printers, it looks like Isyndica doesn't work outside of their agency list. Although it looks fantastic, I'm not a huge uploader so $9.95 per month vs free doesn't make sense right now (especially when FT is going to reject everything I send anyway ). Somtimes though I say, man oh man I should just shoot stock for a living and give up this chasing invoices and wiping little soccer star's noses. If that day comes, I would go for Isyndica!

hlth - if you have an affiliate code you should post it here for Isyndica.

Actually: iSyndica supports FTP so you can connect directly to your local printers. You mention $9.95 but there is a free subscription (pay as you go) and a $4.99/month. Feel free to message me if you have any questions and I can help you get setup.

packerguy · « **Reply #17 on:** August 20, 2009, 07:25 »

You can queue up your files and FTP them to multiple sites using filezilla.

See this thread:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/software-general/how-to-schedule-uploads-with-filezilla/msg85839/

Jonathan Ross · « **Reply #18 on:** September 24, 2009, 13:33 »

Hi All,

I use Captain FTP but if you find one that works well for you I would stick with it. If it ain't broke don't fix it

Best,
Jonathan

melastmohican · « **Reply #19 on:** September 24, 2009, 14:37 »

Is FileZilla working with Veer now? Last time I tried it cannot display file listing.

Dook · « **Reply #20 on:** September 24, 2009, 15:33 »

Try CoreFTP, also.

leaf · « **Reply #21 on:** September 25, 2009, 03:57 »

I added a poll to the thread

Jonathan Ross · « **Reply #22 on:** September 25, 2009, 10:43 »

I don't want to hijack this post but can people offer why they like the FTP they use. What makes it easy, has it had any bugs. I can say for Captain FTP before their newest upgrade sometimes it would have trouble throwing files away correctly but they seem to have fixed that bug.

Best,
Jonathan

microstockinsider · « **Reply #23 on:** September 28, 2009, 22:16 »

I guess little changes in FTP so there's not much comment here?

for me it's got to be smartftp, but the version I have costs $50, the reason: its the only one with multi upload, and by that I don't mean you can have more than one concurrent connection, I mean you can select a bunch of files then select several or all of your websites and then with a single click they go into the queue, submitting each file to each site in turn (al a my video at


Guide to FTP for the Microstock Photographer

)

but now isyndica came along poor old smart doesn't see much action!

Colette · « **Reply #24 on:** September 29, 2009, 03:49 »

I am using Cushy Stock for multi upload to the different stocks. Because I am using an older version of Cushy Stock until now (1.8.5), it doesn't work well for Featurepics. So I use Filezilla for Featurepics uploading. In Cushy I do all the titles, descriptions and keywording, then the uploading to all the selected stocksites together. When I come back home, all is uploaded an I only have to submit the files. Also for stocks that doesn't support FTP, I can do the titles and so on in Cushy. The stocks can read the IPTC data.
Only for Istock I have to copy and paste the info from Cushy to the website when uploading a file. Recently I discovered about iptc and xmp (see other topic about iptc).
I use the up-loader on the website for Zymmetrical, because when I upload with Cushystock or Filezilla the images don't show up on the site. (And yes, I did upload them to the subfolder.)
Filezilla works fine, but it doesn't show thumbnails of the images, only the names of the images. Cushy stock shows all: the thumbnails, the names and the iptc info.
When a site is down, or there are ftp problems on a site, images in Cushy stock get a "failed to upload'. Next time I can easy select the failed uploads to try again.

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Pixart

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davey_rocket

Pixart

goldenangel

epantha

MikLav

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massman

hlth

Pixart

hlth

packerguy

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melastmohican

Dook

leaf

Jonathan Ross

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