Existing users, 
Transmit
FTP / SFTP / WebDAV client with many advanced features.
Version: 3.7
Falling through the floor
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: julianps_dotmac Friday, December 07 2007 @ 12:21 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
For me this application has gone mad.
Local caching of server files, an inability to distinguish between server and locally cached files and permissions and now officially the oddest refresh behaviour ever all combine with some very weird Port access requirements (why exactly does v363 need access to my mail server?) to make this a "good try; no cigar" upgrade.
v356 is still available and still works except, as others have helpfully noted, v356 is a bit long-in-the-tooth now.
The really big shame is that Coda, Panic's sexy web development platform, also uses the Transmit engine and is consequently tarred with the same brush.
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Falling through the floor - julianps_dotmac
I just want to post my own follow up to this.With great thanks to the team at Panic and fellow internauts at the ExpressionEngine forum, plus no end of testing on Yummy, Forklift, Cyberduck et al I am still only able to use Transmit356 to any useful effect.
However on the plus side I've learnt a lot about FTP/sFTP in the process especially a) the way ftp uses high number ports to manage each transfer event; and, b) how, for 99% of shared, virtual and dedicated hosting, Little Snitch will see the TLD as mail.domain.com without it actually being so.
Certainly the upshot is that I feel a lot more comfortable with using hosts like Enginehosting who require sFTP connections to their servers (and, coincidentally, https connections to phpmyadmin) than plain ftp, but that's no more of an issue for Panic than any of the other developers.
And whilst I still have issues with permissions handling in Transmit363 that mean I cannot use it, I should add that testing the rest brought me to appreciate just how good (forget "good"; let's try excellent) Transmit's GUI is and how much ground some of the others have to make up before they could realistically be considered competitors.
I cannot change my lone-star score (which for GUI reasons alone is too harsh) and I cannot recommend v363 (note: all prior versions are still available on Panic's site) but folk who feel FTP clients should offer more features might do well to first consider the features they might request from ftp hosts, like, for example, better security features.
Saturday, December 08 2007 @ 02:30 AM PST
Mysterious. Can you send more info? - cabelsa
Hello,I'd love to know more detail about what you're experiencing -- I haven't heard anything about problems relating to refreshing or cached files, so we'd like to dig in further and find out exactly what's going on for you.
Do you mind sending me an email -- cabel at panic dot com -- with a more detailed explanation, so we can try to figure this out? Thanks in advance.
Thanks again,
Cabel
PS: No -- Transmit definitely does not require access to your mail server...?! Where are you seeing this / what drew you to this conclusion? More info for the e-mail to me, I suppose!
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Friday, December 07 2007 @ 12:52 AM PST