Comments on: 5 Great and Free FTP Clients

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:36:20 +0000

I use FileZilla. I almost never need anything else other than accessing files on my server, downloading and uploading. I really can’t think of any other reason to switch to anything else. I am just so used to it.

I suppose I will look into these other ones though. There is one thing about FileZilla that bugs me; sometime it just stops working completely. This happens with the latest updates on Mac and PC. Sort of annoying but nothing a quit end and restart of the software won’t fix.

By: JP.Thompson

JP.Thompson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:30:23 +0000

I believe that Core FTP Pro allows you to schedule FTP transfers: http://www.coreftp.com/docs/web1/Schedule_FTP_transfers.htm .

Core FTP Pro costs a little (over the free LE): http://www.coreftp.com/order/purchase_client.html

If you are willing to do a little scripting, you may be able to do this with the built-in Windows FTP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/96269

By: JP.Thompson

JP.Thompson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:22:59 +0000

Yes, that certainly does make FireFTP more attractive.

By: Evan Kline

Evan Kline — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:43:47 +0000

Thanks for this post. I’ve used Filezilla almost exclusively for a long time now, but I’m interested to see what else is out there. I’d like to find something that will mirror a server’s directory structure on my local drive, and I haven’t noticed this feature in Filezilla.

By: Mike.Panic

Mike.Panic — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:38:46 +0000

FireFTP is still my go-to app – mostly because I don’t need to “launch” anything and it works on Windows and Mac – and partly because Filezilla was good until they kept trying to “improve” the user interface, making it far less intuitive then it should / could be.