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undyingking) wrote2006-08-22 09:12 am
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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.
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.
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Mm, I was hopeful mainly because WinSCP does do the complex synching thing I want, and it's very much a vanilla SCP client, so I wondered if anyoen had included the same thing in an FTP client. I've found various shareware ones that look as though they might (3D-FTP, EquiFile FTP, TurboFTP) but was hoping for a recommendation. Ah well, not to worry, it's easy enough to download them and give them a test run.