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undyingking ([personal profile] undyingking) wrote2006-08-22 09:12 am
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Foxtrot tango, papa?

Does anyone know of / can recommend a good free / cheap FTP client that'll do reasonably clever and option-laden synching of directory content? Something like WinSCP, only for FTP?

Edit: Being more specific, features I'd like to see include:

* with a small number of clicks, it compares a remote directory (and recurses down into subdirectories) with the previously-specified local equivalent, presents me a list of which files are newer at which end, and will then (again with a small number of clicks) upload or download as appropriate to sych the ones I want to be synched;

* options to include hidden files in the comparison, exclude certain types of files by extension, ...

* remember directory presentation options;

* refresh local directory automatically when changes made in other apps (this seems a simple feature, but I've yet to find it);

* can keep conections to more than one server open at once;

* can configure keep-alive options;

* can synch (as above) remote servers with each other (via invisible local temp copy, presumably);

* easy to chmod, chown, chgrp;

* keps informative log of operations;

* make coffee.

[identity profile] cardinalsin.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
I use 'easy FTP' but no idea whether it does what you want.

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
See above for clarification of reqts.

[identity profile] cardinalsin.livejournal.com 2006-08-22 12:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha ha - I still don't know whether it does what you want! Apart from the coffee bit of course. I'll check tonight, if you haven't already had a reply saying "yes to everything, including coffee".