![]() ![]() Teague claims that Fetch supports SFTP, but that’s not true from what I’ve seen, and so I’ve instead been using Transmit. Recently, I’ve been doing work on a server that I don’t mirror locally, and so I’ve wanted to edit remote files securely with BBEdit. This led me to rsync, and I stopped using FTP entirely. I stuck with it through one upgrade because it was OS X–native, but the mirroring feature stopped working for me. Then Stairways changed Anarchie’s name and got the idea that I’d rather have a skinnable FTP client than security or batch features. I then used Anarchie for many years and was a big fan of its multiple-window interface. Which FTP client do I use? I started out with Fetch because it was good, free, and had some unique features for Dartmouth’s network. ![]() He doesn’t mention the Keychain, AppleScript, batch downloads, Internet Config, SSH, or Kerberos. He doesn’t seem to care about Edit With BBEdit, manages to imply that Fetch doesn’t support that, and prefers RBrowser’s less elegant alternative. Teague assigns a lot of weight to previewing capabilities, but I’ve never cared about that feature. “their stuff.” (Does it cease being my stuff when I put it on my server?) Teague says that “RBrowser is the most OS X–like of the FTP clients we reviewed”-which is either very generous or very cynical depending on your point of view-and then dings it for having a “complex interface.” He gives props to FTP Client for letting you save droplets that upload files to particular folders, but any scriptable client will be able to do that, and anyone serious about synchronization will use rsync or a similar tool rather than FTP. It complains that people will find these names confusing, though I personally find them vastly clearer than Transmit’s notion of “your stuff” vs. The interface section leads off mentioning Fetch’s Get and Put buttons, giving the impression that it doesn’t support drag and drop. I don’t really agree with Macworld’s assessment of seven FTP clients. ![]()
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