recommended windows ftp client

Morlar

This is possibly not stricly a web development issue but it is a related issue. Could I ask for recommendations on Windows FTP clients ?

I regularly update a site with a block of say 2 folders and approx 100 (sometimes 400) files, and what regularly happens is that (without any errors) approx 15-20 % of the files will not get transferred to the webserver. This seems to happen more with JPEG than .html (possibly because of the filesize).

The process of finding which ones are missing and manually replacing them can be tedious - comparing filename against filename in a dual folder view.

I am using Cute FTP Pro - there is a 'synchronise folder' option - but this triggers more prompts, along the lines of 'This file already exsists replace 'No to All' or 'Yes this time' and what it needs is the option to continue synchronising but not to replace exsisting files.

Can anyone recommend a client which is better suited to this ?

The reason the files do not get 100% uploaded is probably down to a not very reliable mobile-web connection and not the client itself but fixing that is the issue.

Dave!

Filezilla is your man

http://filezilla-project.org/

herya

SmartFTP used to be my choice for this type of work:
http://www.smartftp.com/download/

Placebo

file zilla keeps closing connection after a while, tried that thing in options where it sends packets but no change?

Joseph

Dave! wrote: »

Filezilla is your man

http://filezilla-project.org/

Yep

kdaly100

To be honest a different ftp client wont help you too much as the ftp protocol is the ftp protocol and the client just sits around it Cute Ftp is as good ass any other really.

What I recommend is that you zip up the folder and then transfer it to the site and unzip it there.

Morlar

kdaly100 wrote: »

To be honest a different ftp client wont help you too much as the ftp protocol is the ftp protocol and the client just sits around it Cute Ftp is as good ass any other really.

What I recommend is that you zip up the folder and then transfer it to the site and unzip it there.

Well as I said the problem with the files not getting there is not client related - it is down to a mobile web connection.

Fixing the missing files is the problem, in Cuteftp the 'synchronise folder' option gives you a prompt for whether or not to replace each of the files which are there, you can say 'Yes to replace all' or 'no to this one', but you have to say 'no' to EACH of the missing files in teh folder and when there are a few hundred this gets tedious.

What is needed is a way to synchronise the remote and local folder but only replace the ones which are present in the local folder which are not present in the remote one. I never said the protocol was to blame - but the client features are the issue.

herya

You should check out some dedicated FTP sync programs then, something like this one:
http://www.bestfreewaredownload.com/freeware/t-free-ftpsync-freeware-ntacyqvd.html

Or play with the sync feature of SmartFTP, you can define what you want the program to do if the file is missing or already there.
http://smartftp.com/support/kb/synchronization-f190.html