Comments on: Sluggish Mail, Unsatisfying FTP

By: paul

paul — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 03:36:48 +0000

Transmit rules! I’ve been using it since it was called “Transit”, way back in the day. With the recently introduced v3, there is now a column view, and sort by “kind”. I’m not real happy about the way they’ve rearranged the favorites, but overall it’s a solid upgrade. I personally think it’s the best ftp client made for the Mac.

By: MacGuru

MacGuru — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:15:17 +0000

For me the best FTP client for Mac has to be Captain FTP. It offers more than any of the others, and is more reliable, and stable. It also looks good if that’s important.
Goto: http://www.captainftp.com

By: Jon Hicks

Jon Hicks — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 23:21:09 +0000

Dan – I now think that the sluggishness in Safari is due to a memory leak in the app itself. Doesn’t make it any less annoying of course.
Regarding defragmentation: OS X does defrag automatically, but only on files up to 20mb. If you handle a lot of high res files, it might be a problem. I tried out the applejack, and I think thats helped my general system slowness.
As for apps, I use Mail. I converted from Entourage (which I’d been using for 2 years) back in January. Never looked back. Entourage’s mail database needs to be rebuilt every now and then, or else you get all sorts of weirdness happening. Mail feels like a part of the system, and is all the better for it. If only it had some way of archiving older messages.
I’m also a Transmit kind guy, but really hoping for a column or tree view.

By: Mike W

Mike W — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:10:22 +0000

Sorry for the late entry but no-one has mentioned Captain FTP (http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/ftp/home.php). Maybe its a European thing. It’s built from the ground up as an OSX app. (needs Jaguar+) and feature updates are frequent. It has BBEdit support, handles multiple connections and server-to-server transfers amongst other things and is shareware. I like it.

By: Denis 'amon-re' Defreyne

Denis 'amon-re' Defreyne — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:11:36 +0000

I use Cyberduck. The GUI needs some work, and it’s not too stable, but I love the SubEthaEdit integration.
Transmit is a VERY good FTP client. I think I should buy this one some day.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:23:25 +0000

I had issues with mail becomming sluggish, and found that it was due to a plugin installed to allow accessing hotmail mail accounts (http://sourceforge.net/projects/httpmail-plugin). Anyway, a version released a while back had a memory leak that was causing my problems. I switched it out to the new version, and haven’t had any problems since then.
Hopefully this helps.

By: Joel Philip

Joel Philip — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:51:56 +0000

good ol’ Fetch is great. I use ver. 4.0.x and its nicer then Transmit.

By: Clayton

Clayton — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 00:56:49 +0000

Another vote for ncftp. If you’re comfortable using the command line you can’t go wrong with ncftp. I’ve used transmit and if you’re more of a GUI person transmit is probably the best choice.

By: Pete Prodoehl

Pete Prodoehl — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:24:23 +0000

I too will suggest Interachy. It’s solid, and works the way I expect it to. Of course I’ve been using it since the mid-90′s or so…

By: mathew h

mathew h — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 20:59:45 +0000

one thing that confuses me about mac os x is how you can connect to servers with the finder, but you can’t access any of the files thereupon. why is that? is it a secret feature they’re ever going to implement? it would be brilliant to be able to do that.
anyone?