You won't regret with Transmit, I promise you. It takes a little getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, it works like a dream.
Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: Caitlyn Furness To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 5:48 PM Subject: Re: ftp client for the mac Paul, thanks, I didn’t know finder was capable of this! This is great to know! Unfortunately, I will need to upload stuff as well as download it, so I think I might be off to get Transmit. Cait On Jul 9, 2015, at 5:38 AM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Caitlyn, Just to add to this: if you need the ftp protocol onlyt to download stuff from elsewhere, then finder can do the job as well, and then you won’t need a dedicated ftp client. Just hit command plus k when you are in finder. This opens a dialog where you enter a url. This url can also start off with ftp colon slash slash, rather than with http colon slash slash. So, say you want to connect to a server called ftp.somewhere.com. Here’s how to do it. If the port for ftp is the standard one, i.e. if it is simply 21, then you hit command k, you then type ftp://ftp.somewhere.com into the text field, and you then hit connect. Your username and password will be asked for. Enter them and you will be in. To get a list view, hit command plus the number 2. This remote ftp server then looks just like a normal finder window. You can copy files by hitting command plus c on them, you can traverse folders etc, and then if you go to your desktop, downloads folder etc, then you can hit command v to paste and download the files you selected, from the ftp server. If the ftp server you are connecting to uses a non-standard port that it’s listening on for your incoming ftp connection, then you simply append a colon, and the port number to the name of the server. So: command plus k, and then: ftp://ftp.somewhere.com:4094 where 4094 is the non-standard port number the server requirees, if applicable. Hth, Paul. On 06 Jul 2015, at 19:45, Caitlyn Furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Can anyone suggest a good ftp client for use with the mac? I’ve heard about one called transport or something like that, but can’t find it in the app store.. thanks! Caitlyn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.