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Transmit

Transmit

FTP / SFTP / WebDAV client with many advanced features.

Version:  3.7

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Worste ever

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: W-Creative Friday, July 08 2005 @ 09:07 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: 1-6 months

Recommend Product: NO

I've been using transmit for over 5 years, since OS9. I've loved it. It's been a very solid staple of my workflow with both OSX and the Classic OS. I use it daily for hours on end constantly transferring files to over 10 servers throughout the day using passive, standard, and secure FTP protocols.

Version 3.2 is horrible. It's unresponsive, often continuing to transfer files that were supposedly canceled (in the background with no visual indicator of the transfer taking place). The option to replace the queue drawer with a separate window was some misguided marketing interns decision, because it's the WORST possible feature killer in this version. Not to mention the buttons in the queue window are circles with arrows inside them, and apparently one must click the arrow, not the circle surrounding it, in order to activate the button. Talk about needless hunt and peck with a cursor!

I don't know what UI genius at Panic decided to completely mess up a perfectly good UI, but they should be fired or at least reprimanded severely!

I'm going back to version 3.0 or even 2.6.2 where things work as expected the way an application should be. Thank heaven for backups of old software.

If you're a happy Transmit user thinking about this upgrade STOP. There are no great new features. It's basically a lesson in frustration with the poor UI changes. Stick with your current version, you'll be much happier in the long run.   
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4 comments |

Thanks for the feedback! Some questions... - cabelsa

Thanks for your notes on Transmit! I have just a couple of questions.

- You mention the queue now being in a window is a "feature killer". But can you explain a bit about why? What is wrong with the queue now being in a Safari-like window instead of a drawer? How does that interrupt your workflow? We're definitely open to suggestions and would love to know your thoughts!

- You shouldn't have to click just the icon in the cricle -- the whole circle should work just fine. Similarly, no transfer should happen in the background without you being aware (this could affect SFTP in earlier versions, but has long been fixed.) We haven't had any reports of these issues before with 3.2, so please e-mail us so we can investigate your setup further!

Please e-mail us at any time with your feedback so it gets properly logged and researched. You can e-mail me directly: cabel at panic dot com.

Thanks in advance!

Best,
Cabel / Panic

PS: All of our older versions are always made available on our FTP server, downloadable at any time, FYI.

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Saturday, July 09 2005 @ 12:53 AM PDT


Thanks for the feedback! Some questions... - porieux2

>PS: All of our older versions are always made available on our FTP server, downloadable at any time, FYI.

I don't see anywhere on the website where this is stated. Are we supposed to guess?

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Monday, July 18 2005 @ 03:27 PM PDT


Thanks for the feedback! Some questions... - blasto333

ftp.panic.com

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Saturday, July 30 2005 @ 04:03 PM PDT


Thanks for the feedback! Some questions... - tu11ym0n

i definitely agree that I MUCH preferred the queue window being a drawer for the simple reason that the window almost always is covered by another window and I have to manually make it active and bring it to the front. When the queue was a drawer it was always visible and made much better UI sense because of this. why should one have to constantly make it active?

at the very least if you're set on keeping the queue as a window you should make sure the window automatically becomes active and pops to the front of all windows whenever any transfer occurs. it does not do this now.

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Sunday, July 24 2005 @ 02:50 PM PDT