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[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

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

I think FileZilla will do most of what you want, off the top of my head (with the possible exception of the chmod etc. stuff). I believe it only comes with tea-making rather than coffee as standard, though.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I'm not aware that it will do the directory comparison thing which is my main reqt?

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Mmm, it sort of does as bateleur has noted, but possibly not to the level you need -- but I've not seen anything which does that sort of synching in a vanilla FTP client, only in an FTP client bolted on to some kind of content manager.

FileZilla does have the ability to work with stuff in other timezones and not to get _too_ confused -- I've used it with servers in the US before now -- but it does depend on both your server and the remote server having a reasonable idea of what the time is and communicating correctly about timezones. If your remote server doesn't correctly announce its timezone within the timestamp, or if your or its clock has drifted significantly, then you're a bit buggered really.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

not seen anything which does that sort of synching in a vanilla FTP client

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.