new completely cocoa FTP client

I'm beta testing Transmit 2.1 for Panic. One of the new features is:

- Added 'Edit in BBEdit' feature (yay!), accessible via the 'File' menu or contextual menu

This should make you happy!
 
G. Peretz!!!
Dammit!!! Help them get it right!

You can't sort your favorites alphabetically (you can only drag them around one by one)

When you're in a folder, it doesn't tell you how many items are in that folder!

Every time you select a favorite to connect to, it asks for your keychain password and makes Transmit freeze for 5 - 7 seconds!

Help them!!!!!! Transmit 2.0 is slated to be THE FTP client for OS X!
 
I've been a faithful Transmit user for a few years now, but I don't see any reason to upgrade from the version I have (1.7 I think).

This version feels sluggish on my machine (yes I have a sluggish machine too, but the old Transmit is faster). And their upgrade price isn't that compelling if there's no 'must have' feature.

One thing that would be nice would be the ability to import bookmarks from Fetch (I hate Fetch - no good reason except it's always felt like beta software to me, hanging on the slightest whim)
 
pardon my intrusion here, i'm drunk as it's early saturday morning here, but i don't see any way to change permissions for files, which is quite essential for me. the get info command doesn't seem to work. back to fetch, anyway. :)
 
What a long long thread...

Transmit rocks... i've always used it for my quick FTP fixes, even though Dreamweaver manages my site etc, etc... Fetch is a piece of "wondercrap"... yes, just like the bread! Watching that stupid dog run one more time I would have bought a gun I swear it...

Hey Jav, I'll trade you the key code to transmit for a bologna sandwich!!! :)
 
Originally posted by G. Peretz
KrinkleCut--The reason to upgrade is twofold: a completely native Cocoa interface (no Carbon library depency or native code) and that it is based on the rock-solid and well-regarded NcFTP.
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So it's 'better' under the hood... not enough reason for me to upgrade if I don't see any real world improvements.
 
Krinklecut,

The fact that it's completely cocoa, and completely rewritten based off NcFTP is completely worth upgrading.

NcFTP has been on Unix systems for almost 10 years now.

This is SOOO worth upgrading for!

It's not like it's expensive or anything :rolleyes:
 
Well, I've sobered up. Trashed Transmit's preferences, opened a connection and got info. Worked. Hit Cmd-J to edit file in BBEdit, changed, saved. Get Info. Nope. No info window after editing in BBEdit. No changes of permissions. Bad. Back to the dog (Fetch).
 
Oh wow. Another bug!
So, if you edit a file in BBEdit, and change it and save it, you can no longer get info!!! (happened to me, too.)
 
Originally posted by solrac
Krinklecut,

The fact that it's completely cocoa, and completely rewritten based off NcFTP is completely worth upgrading.

NcFTP has been on Unix systems for almost 10 years now.

This is SOOO worth upgrading for!

It's not like it's expensive or anything :rolleyes:
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OK, got that part.. but what does it DO that my copy of 1.7 doesn't? It's not the money (about $30CDN) but the fact I don't see any improvement. Granted, I'm only up and downloading html and php files all day.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm tired of upgrading software that is perfectly functional just because it's new. I'm starting to ask for REASONS *gasp*.

I'm getting onery in my old age.
 
solrac-- I passed on your comments to Panic's beta feedback team. This is what I got back from the developer:

I agree with the first two, and we hope to address them in a future version, but I'm not sure when.

The last one, though, we can't reproduce -- it works just fine for us, and we're only ever asked for the keychain information once. There's no 5-7 second delay. I'm not sure what could be happening here!

Perhaps your keychain is corrupt. Have you tried deleting it and starting over? Perhaps it is just an issue particular to your configuration.
 
Originally posted by G. Peretz
solrac-- I passed on your comments to Panic's beta feedback team. This is what I got back from the developer:

I agree with the first two, and we hope to address them in a future version, but I'm not sure when.

The last one, though, we can't reproduce -- it works just fine for us, and we're only ever asked for the keychain information once. There's no 5-7 second delay. I'm not sure what could be happening here!

Perhaps your keychain is corrupt. Have you tried deleting it and starting over? Perhaps it is just an issue particular to your configuration.
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Thanks!!
As for the keychain, I did delete them all and start over, but it still asks me for my keychain password all the time (not every time), but very frequently. The delay is shorter now. I am on a very slow 400 mhz G4 though....

edit: I click "Always Allow" every time, too!
 
Originally posted by KrinkleCut
OK, got that part.. but what does it DO that my copy of 1.7 doesn't? It's not the money (about $30CDN) but the fact I don't see any improvement. Granted, I'm only up and downloading html and php files all day.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm tired of upgrading software that is perfectly functional just because it's new. I'm starting to ask for REASONS *gasp*.

I'm getting onery in my old age.
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Well, for one, it looks a lot nicer. All the icons are consistent, even custom icons get shown and all the UI elements are nearly perfect. It's a great use of Aqua! I can't say this about ANY other FTP program.

Here are a bunch of other stuff it does!
http://www.panic.com/transmit/

Major stuff includes: Support for SFTP (encrypted FTP), support for long filenames natively (Carbon apps don't do that, you know!), synchronization, batch download, remote editing.

The support for long filenames is reason enough. You can screw up an entire web site by uploading long-named files with a bad FTP program that truncates file names like OS 9 does. All carbon programs do this!! Any program becoming Cocoa is just worth an upgrade. You get all those built in OS-level features. Another hidden cocoa feature, you can scroll a window in the background! If you hold the cmd key down while you click on a background window scrollbar... you can scroll it! Cool huh???
 
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