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Ipswitch's WS-FTP Home 2006 for free

Post by Mountain Goat »

There's stacks of FTP progs. out there, and I only use this one because I can do it in my sleep. Doubtless there are better.

Needing another copy on a new laptop, was frustrated to see they charged £22/US$50 or so for it now.

This link gives a freebie download until 31 Aug 2006:

http://tinyurl.com/peyv4

and even if you don't need it now it may be worth tucking it away for a rainy day. Fire it up just to make sure you're not caught out by the deadline.

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Post by vrooje »

WS-FTP is a good program. I used it a lot as an undergrad.

Lately I've been using CoreFTP Lite because it can do secure FTP (I don't recall how easy this was with wsftp).
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Post by Mountain Goat »

Brooke, not sure. The features list implies it may have to be the Pro version.

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WS_FTP Features

The basic features of WS_FTP allow you to:

Connect your PC to a remote FTP site

Browse files and folders on both the FTP site and your PC

Copy and move files between your PC and an FTP site

Copy files from one FTP site to another (Professional version)

Save and organize connection parameters for your favorite FTP sites

Resume interrupted file transfers

Automatically retry failed transfers

Transfer a single file in multiple parts (Professional Version)

Make a secure connection (with SSL or SSH) so that all data is encrypted as it is transferred (Professional version)

Append a file to another file on the other system (Professional version)

Track and save the folder paths you visit for quick access another time

Perform multiple file transfers using the WS_FTP Transfer Manager

Schedule large files for download at a later, non-peak time with the WS_FTP Scheduler Utility (Professional version)

Find local and remote files and folders that meet certain criteria using the WS_FTP local and remote search utilities

Synchronize directory structures between your PC and an FTP site using the WS_FTP Synchronize Utility (Professional version)

Synchronize two remote sites (Professional version)

Back up files between your file directories and FTP sites

Validate that transferred files have not been compromised between the source and destination sites

Integrate WS_FTP with your browser for faster downloading of files from the Web

Browse remote and local sites with thumbnail view

Auto-connect to remote sites on application start-up

Display local and remote image files as thumbnails
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Post by vrooje »

ah-hah, so perhaps that's why I stopped using it!

All of the servers at my university are sftp only, no regular ftp allowed. :)
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Post by mpprh »

Hi

I used the same "free" product until one day it stopped working, and I was invited to pay for a different version.

I've been using coffecup for a few years now. It still works, and it works OK for me : http://www.coffeecup.com/software

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Post by Chalky »

I was using "myfiles" but lately I've changed to Filezilla - http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla - which is easy to set up and use, is free and, I note, handles SFTP.
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