Comments on: Mac OS X FTP Clients Throwdown http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dimitri http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-599106 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:56:53 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-599106 I’m not agreeing with Transmit being listed as number one. Although I’m using it (v.4.1.5), it suffers several critical bugs in drag and drop and synchronisation.
Ex: Sometimes you download a folder and it doesn’t copy the whole content without saying ANYTHING about it. Synchronisation also doesn’t refresh the remote content so, if the remote content has changed the synchronisation won’t take it into account…
Few bugs but potentially very critical issues !

]]> By: Protex http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312455 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:50:08 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312455 It is really frustrating that Mac can’t come with some free basic FTP client.

I have tried like 5x and none are compatible with various versions of my OS. LAME APPLE.

]]> By: toro http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312454 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:28:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312454 check out macfusion, it integrates into the finder, so u can save to FTP from any save dialogue!

]]> By: Charlie http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312453 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:11:14 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312453 Thanks for this post! Very helpful.

]]> By: ForkLift - Best Damned OS X FTP Client « Mister E. http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312452 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:13:21 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312452 [...] started with this review to get a beginning list of [...]

]]> By: Mejne http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312451 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:18:44 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312451 Thanks to Jim Jordan for reminding everyone that Filezilla also exists for Mac.
I always find it funny how Mac users like to pay for crappy software while they can get high quality open-source for free.
I agree Filezilla doesn’t look that great on OSX but it does work great and has all the features you can expect from an FTP client.

]]> By: Brandon Klapholz http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312450 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:18:05 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312450 This is perhaps the lamest article I have ever come across comparing OS X ftp clients.

What exactly do you consider an “advanced feature”?

ncftp, net2ftp, manyot her options exist including TextWrangler’s built in ftp, and a thousand more on freshmeat and sourceforge – although Interarchy, Viacom, and Yummy aren’t bad… i refuse to pay for http://ftp…thats ridiculous – you don’t even have to on Windows.

I will concede the overall client list for ftp on OS X is relatively pathetic compared to other platforms.

]]> By: Alex http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312449 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:12:59 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312449 The FTP and FXP client named CrossFTP looks good, and the basic version is free:

]]> By: Jim Jordan http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312448 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:59 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312448 Free (GPL), very capable, cross-platform, open source

http://filezilla-project.org/

]]> By: Ben http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312447 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:40:38 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312447 People who love Transmit have not tried Yummy.

]]> By: JoeSmall http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312446 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:30:55 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312446 check out forklift at http://binarynights.com. It’s a new app with built in FTP/SFTP client. I love it!

]]> By: Tim McIntosh http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312445 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:42:39 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312445 Minor correction: The comment that “Son of Fugu” adds nothing is incorrect. It adds the ability to do remote editing with any application, as opposed to Fugu, which only supports external editors implementing the BBEdit protocol.

]]> By: will http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312444 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:06:23 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312444 Re: Jason,
Panic rep here, we didn’t charge for our universal release. In fact, if you look at the 3.5 release notes you’ll see a plethora of features without a hint of an upgrade fee. We only charge across major versions (ie. 2.0 to 3.0) which we feel are well worth the modest upgrade price. Thanks for the kind words about Transmit…we’re glad you like it!

cheers, will

]]> By: FTPplanet.com Blog http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312443 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:11:05 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312443 FTP Clients for the Mac OS X…

It’s a bit more difficult to find a great FTP client for a Mac (after all, WS_FTP is only available on Windows ;-). I came across a fantastic analysis of the various Mac FTP clients available over on The Apple……

]]> By: MacJedi http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312442 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:33:29 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312442 Hmmm…I don’t think Captain FTP has an ugly interface and I think it is wrong of you to eliminate potentially the top client in this category based on a subjective opinion. Most of the reviews on the shareware sites indicate users like me really like the interface.

Captain FTP is rated in the top two or three by most independent Mac reviewers like MacWorld for example.

It is definitely the most reliable and full featured client out there for heavy duty users and beginners.

Looks like you do have a problem, I have made synchronizations with the Captain for projects containing 5,000 files and over 1GB in size without a hitch. I have also been able to do this with some of the other clients you mentioned.

]]> By: Jason http://gigaom.com/apple/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312441 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:05:21 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2006/08/09/mac-os-x-ftp-clients-throwdown/#comment-312441 Transmit all the way. The only downside is that they charge you for major upgrades, i.e. from powerPC to Intel.

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