Foxtrot tango, papa?

[undyingking]

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.

Comments

[chrisvenus]

One of the nice things dreamweaver does is when you hit sync gives you a list of what files its going to move so you can check they look about right. I don't personally trust timestamps alone to do this kind of thing. I'm fortunately in the position where the only site I maintain only has six subdirectories so copying things manually isn't that hard. And I can queue files to be batched all at once for if I have files that are dependant on each other. :)

Smart FTP is what I use currently for the record. About twice a year. :)