>>>>>I use FileZilla to upload our setup files to our website via ftp, but there are lots of problems associated with that program. For one, when the upload gets interrupted, you have to start all over. That can be extremely annoying when you have waited for almost one hour and when the upload is 95% finished it stops and you have to start all over.
>>>>>Does anybody know a good ftp program that could do the job better?
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>>>>FileZilla is perfect for FTP - no problems at all that I have ever encountered. You need to set the options to "resume" or "ask for action" if the file (or part of it) already exists. It will then simply continue from where it left off. Edit menu-> Settings -> File transfer section -> Action to perform if file exists on upload and download. Yours is probably set to overwrite.
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>>>Thanks, that will help a lot. This was the biggest issue I had, but there are other issues as well. For instance if you place three files into the "Queue", Filezilla tries to upload all three of them simultaneously. That of course is not a "queue", but the result is that if you have one file of 10MB and another file of 100MB, you still have to wait a lot for the 10MB file. You can set the priority, but to upload them as a real queue would be much more intuitive. Sometimes the distributors are just hanging on the line to get the upgrades, sitting in the office of a client waiting for my call, and those little things can be very frustrating at times.
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>>>Also, when I come back from lunch and see the files in the "Failed" list. It would be nice if it just would keep on trying uploading. Perhaps it's just my opinion but if I tell the program I want those files from here uploaded to there, why stop half way and give me a friendly message?
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>>>But these are relatively minor issues.
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>>Again there is a setting for how many simultaneous files you want to allow to be transferred. The default is 2. Edit menu -> Settings -> Transfer section -> Maximum simultaneous transfers. Set it to 1 if you like a single queue.
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>>Retries -> Edit menu -> Settings -> Connection section -> Maximum number of retries. ...
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>You are kidding :)
>Do they have a setting for everything? I must admit I just assumed it would be a bad program because of their ugly logo. But I guess you can change that as well.

I've been using FileZilla for years. It's got lots of options. One of the problems is the size of your upload. You could exclude many things from your exe to reduce its size. I tried to get MaxFrame to stop arbitrarily combining many things into a single VCX. If I use one of those classes, the entire VCX is included in the exe. Most people think this is not a problem, but it is when trying to send the exe around - such as when downloading it from the server to multiple workstations when an upgrade happens. Also, If I change 2 bytes in the exe, why do all systems resend the entire file?

Even Microsoft's Visual Studio - which uses Diffs to check in files, does not use diff on an exe to integrate the changes for the recipients. It sends the entire exe.

It's simply an accumulation of inefficiencies.