Suggestions for good Windows FTP client please?

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mattwnz

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#839573 19-Jun-2013 16:12

freitasm:
mattwnz: My reason for still using wsftp, is that I have all the ftp details already stored in it, and you can back them up. I don't think filezilla is a good for that, and it is a pain to copy them across.

I only use one site really - Geekzone, and access via the VPN SFTP. Free is better and configuration is not a big deal because it's easy to manage a single site. If I had more then certainly that would be a deal breaker.

FileZilla then should be fine for you. I have found it does pretty much everything that wsftp can do.

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#839574 19-Jun-2013 16:12

You can easily export and import sites saved in site manager with filezilla

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#839578 19-Jun-2013 16:14

JamesL: You can easily export and import sites saved in site manager with filezilla

But can you import wsftp sites, into filezilla? I couldn't find a way to do this.

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#839639 19-Jun-2013 17:17

i use flashfxp, not free but pretty cheap and works well. worked on xp, vista, 7 and now 8 without issue. split screen, explorer + ftp, explorer + explorer, ftp + ftp. constantly updated. buy once, lifetime updates. can use on more than one pc too. www.flashfxp.com

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#839864 19-Jun-2013 21:23

Have you tried Swish (http://www.swish-sftp.org/)? It integrates into windows explorer, and it's free. Works for me...

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#839943 19-Jun-2013 22:47

I also use Filezilla or WinSCP.

If you want an ftp server better than IIS's Filezilla Server is good too.

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#839962 19-Jun-2013 23:27

+1 for FileZilla.

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#839982 20-Jun-2013 06:58

For interactive sessions I use FileZilla.

However, there is one process that I want to run automatically on a schedule. To do that, I wrote a bit of VB Script that calls a Windows batch file. The batch file uses the Windows built-in FTP client. The VB Script is set up to run at scheduled times using Windows Scheduler. The VB Script also writes a text log file each time it runs, to let me know if there were any problems. All rather convoluted, but it works.

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