OSX FTP Program

[Jelly2003]

Hi Mac Guru's!

I have a client who is a Mac freak (he has a nice iBook). Anyways thus far he has been using WSFTP on the PC to upload images onto his website, now he wants to use his Mac to upload (which makes sense).

Can anyone advise me on some good Mac OSX FTP clients?

I'd like to know at least one free, and one paid client. The main requirement is that it MUST be user friendly and easy to use, my client doesnt mind paying as long as it does the job quickly and easily.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks

[Bling3k12]

http://www.panic.com/transmit/

Transmit 2

I'd say, IMO, it's by far the best OS X FTP client.

Don't know of any free ones, because I think that one is just awesome and use it all the time.

[TiBook]

CyberDuck. Google it.

[mihir]

I use RBrowserLite, work fine for the simple stuff, haven't yet had the need to do CHMOD anything or any complicated stuff. I only use it because it was the first one I came across.

[jack_canada]

the one thing i don't like about macs is that there's so few free softwares out there for mac!

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

  jack_canada said:

the one thing i don't like about macs is that there's so few free softwares out there for mac!

Wow, thank you for contributing an entirely useless and off topic post to the discussion!

Perhaps I should point you at the several thousand free packages included in fink.sf.net or the many free apps on macupdate.com or versiontracker.com. Or perhaps you should realize that the majority of shareware apps on the mac are pay-only because they demand it and they're much higher quality, on average, than the shareware products of the PC world?

And if you're still gonna bitch about it, I'll show you SMX :p

Edit: BTW...

http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/produc...products_id=426

http://homepages.tig.com.au/~cthulhu/moder...thingy/app.html

http://liphou.arsware.org/

I'm a fan of the last one for the free FTP clients out there. Transmit's still the best, though :D

[session]

I like transmit! :)

[mr_daemon]

Transmit is the best. Seriously. I just LOVE the french translation, it's just so awesome how they made it.

[wtmcgee]

Transmit is the best, by far. that LifTP is nice too.

[frod]

i'm going to have to give another vote for transmit

[Elliott]

Transmit indeed. :D

[cerbero]

Transmit would be perfect if they added a proper queue system.. IMHO, you should be able to drop folders or files into the queue, and when one transfer is done, it continues with the next item, without opening any extra connections to the server or anything like that. Also, if it's a folder, the app shouldn't transfer it as one item, but rather traverse that folder and change the queue to include all the files in that folder. Ala FlashFXP on Windows. I haven't been able to find any FTP client for the Mac that has a queue system similar to this, except LFTP, which is a command-line app.

Transmit is awesome for smaller tasks though, like updating websites or putting stuff on my Xbox, but it's not worth the money for me when that's all I use it for, so I'm sticking with LFTP and NcFTP for now, until a find a client with a proper queue system.

Sorry for the rant, turned out longer than I expected :)

[Jelly2003]

Thanks everyone, you have all been a big help. I'll give my client the options and they can decide!

[frod]

  cerbero said:

ueuTransmit would be perfect if they added a proper queue system.. IMHO, you should be able to drop folders or files into the queue, and when one transfer is done, it continues with the next item, without opening any extra connections to the server or anything like that. Also, if it's a folder, the app shouldn't transfer it as one item, but rather traverse that folder and change the queue to include all the files in that folder. Ala FlashFXP on Windows. I haven't been able to find any FTP client for the Mac that has a queue system similar to this, except LFTP, which is a command-line app.

Transmit is awesome for smaller tasks though, like updating websites or putting stuff on my Xbox, but it's not worth the money for me when that's all I use it for, so I'm sticking with LFTP and NcFTP for now, until a find a client with a proper queue system.

Sorry for the rant, turned out longer than I expected :)

i couldn't agree more. i find it annoying that transmit assumes you are allowed to open more than one connection to the same server (don't know how many times i've been banned from friends' ftps due to this).

the queue system is also pretty horrible, but as you say there aren't really any better alternatives in the gui ftp client market.