Fugu - 1.2.0

I have used this exactly twice since downloading, but I am completely happy with it so far. Fingers crossed that it will continue to meet my needs. Kudos for such excellent freeware. You pay a lot of $ for worse products.

Excellent freeware app.

In the domain of freeware ftp clients FUGU is from my point of view the best choice, escpecially since it works very liably, I had no unexpected crashs or errors, yet (which I encountered in other freeware ftp apps more often than I could bear). Moreover I love the additional scp support so that I only need one app for both ftp and scp (no more need for the previously used Terminal for scp copies). All in all: Great job!

recursive directory copy does not work. fugu developers, please RTFM. it's not that hard. just open terminal and type "man scp" at the prompt. thank you.

I've used Fugu for quite a while, and it's great. The automatic switch-to-SCP for directories, for example, is really slick. The interface is wonderful, and all in all it's a pleasure to use.

BUT.

It has this one annoying habit that keeps cropping up. It won't let me delete remote directories -- apparently, as long as there's anything in them. So I have to go through the directories and subdirectories and sub-sub-etc., deleting everything as I go, and there's probably still at least one .DS_store file somewhere in there that will throw a spanner in the works even if everything looks OK. If I want to delete or replace a directory, I generally need to ssh in, go all the way to whatever directory I'm trying to get rid of, do rm -r directoryname, and sign off. One genuine pain in an otherwise delightful program.

And yes, I realize that this is SFTP's fault, but if there were a "jump to SSH and do this" feature for deleting directories in the same way that there's a "jump to SCP and do this" feature for copying them, I'd be a much happier man.