Interarchy - 9.0.1

This upgrade has been a serious disappointment. Their forum was full of complaints, but they've taken it down now for maintenance. I would be very cautious about this new developer, until we see an upgrade for some of these bugs.

Interarchy has been a great ftp and file transfer client, no doubt. We have to see if the new developer will keep up good work, or has just been trying to grab upgrade fees.

Cannot recommend at this time.

Having used Interarchy 9.0 pretty extensively for the last 24 hours I can report that it's reliable on my G5 PPC. So what do I want from an upgrade to interarchy? More speed? Better Security? Streamlined UI? I was amazed as it has all of those. I can count the number of times I've been as pleased by an upgrade as much as this on the fingers of one hand (the recent version of Logic accounts for three of those fingers, it was so good).

SSH works brilliantly, unbelievably fast listings even with a couple of hundred items in a folder. The draggable and organisable tabs, along with the sidebar, make perfect sense, it's just like using the finder. Another handy new feature is the directory/path info which is like a breadcrumb trail at the bottom of the window.

I'm a great fan of PathFinder, and I think the Nolobe crew must be too, because it's starting to feel like a streamlined version of that, with all of it's advantages but without the complexity. My congratulations to the team on a solid update. I would have liked a bit more of a discount as a current user, but then I do use Interarchy all the damn time so I'll live with it seeing as they've delivered what feels like a proper major update (for an FTP app that is – don't expect it to control itunes or anything funky).

One thing I'd like to see, which should be easy since we can now connect with SSH, is a drop down terminal draw at the bottom which can resize nicely like the one in PathFinder. I would then be able to do fast tar, gzip and recursive permissions or deletes – and yes I know there's an open in terminal command but I want it built in dammit :) Anyway, a great update, seems like the problems reported may depend on whether that stuff is important to you, doesn't affect me at all, and I'm sure they'll be fixed soon enough – since Nolobe took over (a developer take over if I remember??) things have been improving dramatically.

Unfortunately, this version is not ready for prime time. It crashes constantly. (Their forum is full of complaints.) There is no help; you cannot add a folder to the bookmark bar w/o crashing; adding a local file bookmark crashes it; the net tools are gone.. the list goes on.

This is very weird: Interarchy has always been a strong, reliable client... this release (9.0) isn't even ready for beta status, IMHO.

There are great free FTP applications out there. Help end this kind of thing! Boycott it!

Interarchy is awesome. It saves me countless hours. I can understand how it could overwhelm novices but it is not intended for novices. If you are a web developer and need to upload lots of large complicated websites I strongly recommend you check out Interarchy. It's mirroring engine, user interface, and bookmarking system is a real time saver.