OSX FTP app? [Archive] - Kiwi Biker forums

xwhatsit

8th May 2007, 10:37

Whats a good FTP app for OSX for uploading - used Fetch on older machines - tried a few on the new box and they crash.

?

Open up a console, type:

ftp

riffer

8th May 2007, 14:54

Seriously though Dave - transmit is good.

But why can't you just use the terminal?

The default directory for terminal is your home directory. Place the file in your home directory; say you name it dave.doc.

Then you open the terminal, type ftp bigdave.co.nz for example, login, and type put dave.doc into the terminal. Hey presto - the file's going over.

Or you log on to an ftp server, type ls to get a directory listing and then get dave.doc to grab the file.

If this is all sounding tricky, just use Unix's man function to find out more. macOsX has all the Unix functionality in that way.

Open a terminal, type man ftp. Use pageup, pagedown, or use the up and down arrows to get around. Type Control-C to exit.

The terminal ain't so scary... :yes:

Big Dave

8th May 2007, 14:57

nah fark that - I just want to drag icons.

xwhatsit

8th May 2007, 15:06

nah fark that - I just want to drag icons.

Heheh you can tell you're an old-time Mac user.

What with OS X things are becoming decidedly more Unix-y, a lot of the new school are ex-Linux/Unix users who are used to spending most of their time on the terminal.

Off-topic, but that's what's cool about modern Mac OS X -- fantastic GUI that you can spend all your time in, or if you're like me and used to working at the terminal you can do things the way you feel natural. That was a fucked-up sentence.

I hear Interarchy is pretty good if you don't want to touch the command-line.

EDIT: Or if you really want to sell out to the devil, OS X has Internet Explorer -- you can use that for drag-and-drop file transfers. But I wouldn't :D

skelstar

8th May 2007, 15:23

But I wouldn't :D
...and neither would Microsoft as they won't even support IE on the Mac anymore.

Big Dave

8th May 2007, 15:23

Ok - I have another question for you geeks.

I have a customer with about 4000 different stock lines that wants to build a site that his customers can place orders from. No transactions just orders.

Looking for a quote build a database (from scratch - all in word files currently) and implement it behind a front end that i will build.

PM me for more details.

TerminalAddict

8th May 2007, 16:18

in word? argh
oscommerce .. charge per hour to migrate into a db

4000 stock lines could be fun tho ;)

What with OS X things are becoming decidedly more Unix-y, a lot of the new school are ex-Linux/Unix users who are used to spending most of their time on the terminal.

with a name like TerminalAddict I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about :nya:

Skunk

8th May 2007, 18:44

nah fark that - I just want to drag icons.
CyberDuck or RBrowser

Both are on Versiontracker (http://www.versiontracker.com)

Big Dave

8th May 2007, 18:49

CyberDuck or RBrowser

Both are on Versiontracker (http://www.versiontracker.com)

Tried the cyberduck - eggzactly what I wants, but as flakey as....

Will check t'other taa

Skunk

8th May 2007, 21:50

CyberDuck is rock solid on all our Macs (total of 15 have it installed - OSX 10.3.9 to 10.4.9 only one is Intel). Flakey may mean your System isn't quite "right"...

Tried fixing your permissions?

Big Dave

8th May 2007, 22:10

Tried fixing your permissions?

Dunno - have I?

riffer

8th May 2007, 22:31

Let me guess. You've never used Disk Utility have you Dave?

or fsck'ed your mac from single-user mode?

TerminalAddict

8th May 2007, 22:42

holy cow man .. it ain't a linux world . .what u talking 'bout riffer?

:nya:

gijoe1313

8th May 2007, 23:04

And somewhere, a multi-coloured Apple logo cries ... it cries in happiness as the devout proclaim their minority status to the world!

I have sacrificed an apple keyboard to the altar of user-friendliness and the quaint expressions the serene few have when over-hearing others denigrate and besmirch their boxes of Babel.

Let a thousand icons blossom,
A friendly smile greet on start-up,
The Moo-dog of yesteryear goes "Moof!"
From //e to i, from LC to iMac,
Yea, let it be so,
And somewhere, an apple logo is presented
On screen, flaunting its apostle values
To those initiated in M$ shrines of majority
Yea, let it be so,
For we lucky few, are part of grass roots -
Burt Munro's credo - to do a lot with little.

Amen, do na pacem

Big Dave

8th May 2007, 23:14

Let me guess. You've never used Disk Utility have you Dave?

or fsck'ed your mac from single-user mode?

Permissions repaired - volume needed a touch up too. Just needed pointing right direction.

If I have to 'log out' it's not single user? But I'm the ONLY cahoot that uses it anyway.

riffer

8th May 2007, 23:38

Okay...

reboot the mac, hold down Apple-S. This will start the mac in single-user mode. It's like booting into dos on a PC.

If you type fsck -fy at the prompt it will perform a File System Consistency Check. The fy parameters force it to say yes to any queries it may have. Real Unix geeks will say this is bad but TBH it's never caused me grief.

This will clean up any inconsistencies in the File Tables and make your disk a bit happier.

Then just type logout and the mac will go to the nice light blue screen and start up as per normal.

riffer

8th May 2007, 23:42

The Moo-dog of yesteryear goes "Moof!"

Ah - the moo-dog.

I kinda miss the litttle feller. :mellow:

xwhatsit

9th May 2007, 00:30

Ah - the moo-dog.

I kinda miss the litttle feller. :mellow:

I believe he is officially known as the dogcow. Read here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.storybytes.com%2Fview-moof%2Farticles%2Fmim.html&ei=P21ARuOrGI-agQP5uY3KAg&usg=AFrqEzeZBEk3kNooLei7T4JcxsZVo9c-dQ&sig2=FWC2Vovlh5He8uzudGeMPw

Heheh. Keep Moof! in Mind!

Big Dave

9th May 2007, 12:43

Cyber duck doing the business now.
Thanks yall

RantyDave

9th May 2007, 13:22

Have a look at Fugu too (http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/) - works over SSH/SFTP so you don't have to send your password in cleartext AND the admin doesn't need to bother with an FTP server.

gijoe1313

9th May 2007, 16:44

I believe he is officially known as the dogcow. Read here: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.storybytes.com%2Fview-moof%2Farticles%2Fmim.html&ei=P21ARuOrGI-agQP5uY3KAg&usg=AFrqEzeZBEk3kNooLei7T4JcxsZVo9c-dQ&sig2=FWC2Vovlh5He8uzudGeMPw

Heheh. Keep Moof! in Mind!

Aye that he is, dogcow be the correct appellation and moo-dog was just a transubstantive metaphor about the vagaries that surround the world of Apple computing! (Moo = MU = Multiple User ... oh fergeddaaboutit! :pinch:)

Moof! Moof!

xwhatsit

9th May 2007, 21:51

Aye that he is, dogcow be the correct appellation and moo-dog was just a transubstantive metaphor about the vagaries that surround the world of Apple computing! (Moo = MU = Multiple User ... oh fergeddaaboutit! :pinch:)

Moof! Moof!

Since when has Mac OS been Multi User? Only since OS X, and that's Unix anyway :D [/geek]

Big Dave

9th May 2007, 22:06

What's another word for transubstantive metaphor?

riffer

9th May 2007, 22:13

Since when has Mac OS been Multi User? Only since OS X, and that's Unix anyway :D [/geek]

Since OS9 dude.

source: The Mac Observer (http://www.macobserver.com/tips/hotcocoa/2001/20010330.shtml).

Big Dave

9th May 2007, 22:17

OS9 dude.

Was that after 9.2 ?

As opposed to Windows 'Mullet'.

gijoe1313

10th May 2007, 09:03

As Tony the Tiger says .... "It's Grrrrreat!", before that black panther comes along ...

gijoe1313

10th May 2007, 09:06

What's another word for transubstantive metaphor?

Try this ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation

And if you can't be arsed, the short spiel is ... it's what you make of it! :rofl:

'pologies again for the juxaposition of religion with different OS's .... thought it was apt analogy!

Moof!

skelstar

10th May 2007, 11:06

While we are at it, does anyone know of a good photo/graphics image viewer for Mac? iPhoto is good for oragnising photos, but I want to look at a directories pictures in a slideshow type format (without importing into iPhoto)...a bit like Irfanview does for the Winbox. REALLY wish picassa put out their app for Mac, thats really nice.

TerminalAddict

10th May 2007, 12:08

Apple-A (select all)
ctrl-click (or right click)
view slideshow

Big Dave

10th May 2007, 12:12

. it's what you make of it! :rofl:

Yes - Perhaps you didn't note, I made a pun of it.
That's about a seriously as I take any Scottish mendacity.