Best freeware FTP program?

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As above. Sorry for the daft question but my Smart FTP that i have happily used for years seems to have decided it's a 30 day trial and has stopped working :confused: Also the search function isnt working on these forums.

Every program i try seems to need a serial key! What are the best free FTP programs out there? :)
 
FileZilla - no question!

used smartFTP for ages then it started disconnecting and doing all kinds of weird things, tried a trial of FlashFXP and it was ok.

Then found filezilla and forgot the rest existed.
 
Well i had a look in the sticky and saw Filezilla and i have to say it looks really ugly to me, lol! Is there anything else out there? What about Coffee Cup?
 
Well i had a look in the sticky and saw Filezilla and i have to say it looks really ugly to me, lol!

i WAS gonna say something silly to that statement, but then i realized that i thought that the same thing when i was also searching for an FTP client. Iv tried many ftp clients over the years, most are bloated and cost a fair bit. FileZilla is free, light-weight, and it just simply works, no questions. i guess it could be called ugly, but i just don't even notice anymore.

give it a go, i guarantee you wont be disappointed.
 
I'd give smartftp another go. Maybe download the latest version.
Mine says it has been installed for 47 days but still lets me use is.
It's very good
 
johnyccc said:
I'd give smartftp another go. Maybe download the latest version.
Mine says it has been installed for 47 days but still lets me use is.
It's very good

Yeah, mines been on for ages, but it gets on my wick with it's damn popup before you use it, whereas FileZilla just works. :)

InvG
 
i used smartftp for ages and loved it until it kept loading the splash screen and then not loading..... moved onto filezilla and that works nicely aswell
 
Can you do something like in smartFTP where you can double click to edit it, and when the file is saved it gets automatically uploaded?
 
I used Filezilla for ages, but found it annoying to use after a while. Tried SmartFPT and that annoyed me even more. Now I use FlashFXP and it does the job for me perfectly :-)
 
wow never knew that you could get a nice ftp. the first and only ftp i have ever used is filezilla. Its very quick and very simple. Does it miss out on any features that others have?

if you use firefox you could also try Fireftp extension. Its pretty decent aswell and runs just in a firefox tab but just not as good as filezilla
 
marc_howarth said:
i used smartftp for ages and loved it until it kept loading the splash screen and then not loading.....
That's what happened to me. The wierd thing is i can occasionally get into it if i hit enter or click 'ok'. What an odd program :p
 
er.. have you tried actually reading what it says? All you have to do is click the link, and it will update and continue to work for another 30days.. rinse repeat forever.
 
Dj_Jestar said:
er.. have you tried actually reading what it says? All you have to do is click the link, and it will update and continue to work for another 30days.. rinse repeat forever.
I did that. Still no worky! Nevermind. I'm not doing much web stuff nowadays, so i've got Filezilla. On first look it's not as ugly as i first thought, although it could do with jazzing up a bit ;)
 
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