Existing users, 
I had to do some heavy uploading and decided to experiment with the most popular FTP clients: Transmit, Cyberduck, FTPClient, Anarchy and Fetch.
The files were in two groups and went to two different servers. One a Mac server the other a Unix server. Each had 30 folders and a total of 4,600 (html) files.
All but Fetch failed to complete the uploads and they had different problems. For light work it seems most of these FTP clients work fine.
Then the next day Fetch had problems which I seemed to resolve by trashing the Cache and Preferences, which I had done when having problems with it in OS9.
I had used Transmit in OS9 until I discovered it choked on large files which I found when downloading web site log files over 20Mb. I then swiched to Fetch. Transmit acknowledged this and said that wouldn't be a problem in the OS X version but I'd have to buy the new version, which I thought was cheesy since the OS 9 didn't really work.
Vicomsoft's FTPClient is interesting, it launches very quickly but I couldn't say it uploaded any faster than Fetch, but it failed to upload all the folders/files successfully. By the way the Unix uploads with Fetch 4,600 html files took 45 minutes.
I only tried this experiment once, since it did take some time. The programs might work better for different users. This is just my one-time experience.
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Contributed by: kkrimmer Saturday, August 20 2005 @ 11:41 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
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WORKS FOR HEAVY USE - kkrimmer
I just tested Yummy and retested Fetch. Both worked flawlessly uploading multiple folders and thousands of files. Still had problem when retested Transmit, it seemed like it was uploading all the files, in this case 23 folders with 85 files each but after about 10 minutes I got an error and it turned out none had been uploaded. There may be a preferences setting in Transmit that would resolve this I don't know. All are tested with default settings. I did not retest Cyberduck, FTPClient, Anarchy.Wednesday, August 24 2005 @ 08:25 AM PDT
You should try Yummy FTP - MacOSManiac
Your test result confirms my findings too with the clients listed. Nevertheless, I stuck with Transmit for its more flexible interface and features and went back to Fetch for large transfers.That was until I found Yummy FTP. It gave me both the interface and features as well as the reliability I needed, and for this kind of work especially, I didn't find anything better. Not only will it complete your example test with ease but it will use about a third of the CPU usage that Fetch does, which is important to me anyway. But the best thing is that if there is ever a problem, like a dropped connection for example, it's automatic reconnect and retry feature kicks in so you'd never even notice! It's also super fast, which is very important when there's a lot to transfer.
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Sunday, August 21 2005 @ 02:07 AM PDT