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FileZilla V3.3.4.1
Suggested by Andrew Lee - Updated by webfork on 26 Aug 2010
15MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (4307)
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Category: Internet - FTP Clients (7)

Synopsis: FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP and SFTP client. It includes a site manager and supports uploads/downloads queue, remote file search, drag-and-drop, keepalive, timeout detection, remote file search, SOCKS 4/5 and HTTP 1.1 proxy, etc.

Alternately, Filezilla Portable is a package optimized for external flash memory.

For Windows 2000 and earlier, an old, unsupported version (2.2.22) is available.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract:

Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice.
Create a subfolder called settings.
Copy docs\fzdefaults.xml.example to the main folder, and rename as fzdefaults.xml.
Edit fzdefaults.xml and change:

<Setting name="Config Location">$SOMEDIR/filezilla/</Setting>

to:

<Setting name="Config Location">settings</Setting>

Launch FileZilla.exe.

Stealth [?]: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: GPL

System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / Win7

What's new: >>

Set a minimum size for column widths in directory lists and transfer queue
Fix build-time check for system TinyXML

Posted comments:

Webfork: Best FTP client I've used:

* You can backup your settings (a few kilobytes) or the whole program with the portable version.
* Very compatible with a very wide variety of FTP, FTPs, and SFTP servers I've used both Windows and Linux. Very reliable - never crashes.
* Close the program and re-launch when you get home and it will remember what was in your queue.
* Bandwidth throttling to prevent saturating your upload/download.

Only FlashFXP provides something extra (FTP Search capability) but isn't free OR portable. [2007-05-28 19:40]

Spongebob: What the.. is the Edit file function gone? [2007-09-09 09:32]

Ennovy: 2Spongebob: Read this http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4203
quote
Unfortunately not all features currently implemented in the old 2.x versions could make it into 3.0.0. However most of them will be implemented in a future version. In addition, FileZilla 2 and 3 can coexist on the same system in case you depend on a feature currently in 2.x
unquote [2007-09-09 09:59]

linuxamp: V3 still does not support public/private key SFTP without Pageant. Wonder if they'll ever support it. [2007-09-09 20:59]

Commander: Version 3 is not completely ready for prime time, since it does not yet support command line functions.

I'll stay with version 2 until command line is supported. [2007-09-23 13:01]

tomasSC: 10MB ?!?!
this used to be a portable & LIGHTWEIGHT app [2007-10-22 03:58]

Commander: Version 3 still does NOT support command line functions. Version 2 seems like a much better program for now. Sometimes "progress" goes in the wrong direction. [2007-11-09 06:34]

Commander: As best I can tell, this still does not support the command line functions available in 2.x.

Strange to release a new version that lacks major features of the previous version.

I'll stick with version 2.x until command line functions are added to version 3.x. [2007-11-29 06:46]

Jesse: I thought the final version would finally add command line support (which version 2 already had and was dropped in version 3), but no luck.

I agree with the comments above that this new version is not as useful as version 2.

Why would they go backwards and elminate functions from new versions? [2008-01-11 05:53]

Paciuli: Version 3 has been rewritten from scratch, so no wonder some old features may be lacking. Still, i relly miss some of them too, so i'm keeping both versions but still use 2.x all the time [2008-01-11 12:11]

Mehrez: I have tested several clients. This is my first choice. Thanks. [2008-03-08 12:34]

Klaus: Brilliant software. Fast, reliable and PORTABLE. Love it. [2008-03-12 02:29]

Kermode: If you feel its lacking functions, perhaps you should go bitch on the page of the people who actually program it. [2008-03-25 09:26]

r: Beware! FileZilla does not encrypt your saved passwords in the Site Manager or any where else! It is saved in plain text! [2009-03-11 23:12]

semiRocket: I can confirm that, passwords are saved in addition to other settings in %AppData%\FileZilla\sitemanager.xml
Great thing if you forget your password ;-) [2009-04-24 05:51]

avoidz: I had no trouble with version 2, but since version 3 I can never stop FileZilla from disconnecting from the server - any help? Cheers! [2009-11-23 13:26]

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