OSX FTP app?

**Big Dave** · 8th May 2007, 09:10

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

?

**TerminalAddict** · 8th May 2007, 09:12

transmit (not free) love it!!!

also does sftp/scp .. good for geeks

http://www.panic.com/transmit/

**skelstar** · 8th May 2007, 09:37

If you use Firefox theres a great FTP addon called FireFTP. I own transmit, but now use FireFTP.

**xwhatsit** · 8th May 2007, 10:37

Originally Posted by Big Dave

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:

Code:

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...

**Big Dave** · 8th May 2007, 14:57

nah fark that - I just want to drag icons.

**xwhatsit** · 8th May 2007, 15:06

Originally Posted by Big Dave

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

**skelstar** · 8th May 2007, 15:23

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

But I wouldn't

...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

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

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

**Skunk** · 8th May 2007, 18:44

Originally Posted by Big Dave

nah fark that - I just want to drag icons.

CyberDuck or RBrowser

Both are on Versiontracker

**Big Dave** · 8th May 2007, 18:49

Originally Posted by Skunk

CyberDuck or RBrowser

Both are on Versiontracker

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?