Re: FN-FORUM: Good Free FTP Client (PC)

date posted 17th August 2005 00:48

I use WS_FTP LE and it's served me well, In fact my only gripe is that
it doesn't automatically reconnect when it times out. That said, there
is a possibility I've been to lazy to find out how to do this :)

Richard wrote:
> I would have recommended SmartFTP, though this is not really *free* for
> commercial use :) I've heard good things about BTFtp
> (http://www.bpftp.com/) and and CuteFTP - which seems to look very
> similar to SmartFTP.
>
> You mentioned this not being an ideal setup, is there no way you can
> create a single archive (tar-gz/zip/etc) to download?
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On
>>Behalf Of Chris Green
>>Sent: 16 August 2005 22:01
>>To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>Subject: FN-FORUM: Good Free FTP Client (PC)
>>
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Anyone got any reccomendations regarding a good free FTP
>>client for PC.
>>
>>I'm currently using SmartFTP to backup my sites (>3Gb), but as they
>>contain over 200,000 small files, it seems to die every so often and
>>miss some files or directories.
>>
>>Obviously, for a backup this ain't ideal.
>>
>>Anyone knows of an FTP client which at least won't just give up if it
>>fails to download a file, but carry on trying or requeue it until it
>>gets the file.
>>
>>Also, ideally if it can use multiple FTP connections, as that would
>>speed up downloading all the small files. SmartFTP can do
>>this, but it
>>seems to fail even more often when using this method.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>
>>Chris.
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