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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.

Date: 2006-08-22 10:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com
I am actually using Dreamweaver at the moment for this task, but it seems a bit overkill (and also has other annoyances which I won't bore you with here!) I'm not so fussed about having it automatically upload any changed files without me having to tell it to, as I don't use that very often, but it's the other thing you mention below of giving a helpful list of which files are newer at each end which I find valuable. See above for a bit of a clarification of needs..

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