Custom Query (2164 matches)

Hi,

I'd be great if FileZilla (client) could use QoS.

Thanks.

as seen in WS_FTP:

... The DirInfo button opens a window that displays the files and folders in the current folder, as well as the file sizes, and dates and times last edited. ... as in ls -la

HI,

is it possible to do a quick fix for UNC path support on the remote site.

"
pcname\share" should result in "CWD
pcname\share" instead of "cwd drive:/pcname/share".

thanks in advance

maik

Please include a function that allows you to change the name of a file when uploading it without having to change the source file´s name. This is usefull when the source system does not allow long filenames.

Autohide queue window when there is nothing in the que so that there is more screen space for the interesting bits.

If right click on the toolbar then you should get a menu where you can hide the Quickconnect bar.

I know you can do this from "View".

But in other toolbars in Windows you can get a menu to show/hide toolbars.

It would be really handy if the Transfer Type of a file (ASCII or Binary) would be displayed in the Queue. This might be an optional display setting, of course.

Currently there are lists of file extensions that should be used in ASCII mode. This has problems as everyone knows, because you have to explicitly make sure that files are in the list, or if they have no extension like many UNIX files, you have to set the transfer mode.

I propose an addition to this system that comes into play when an extension for a file is unknown, or if the file has no extension. FileZilla would try to determine the use of ASCII and non-ASCII character codes within the file being transferred. More on that in a little bit. Once it has detected the type, it would confirm with the user that this is the correct type for the file/extension, and also allow them to add the extension or file name to the list of extensions/filenames.

This system would be easier to implement than you probably think. ASCII files generally use a limited subset of the available combinations for each byte. A good example is that ASCII files *generally* use only things you can see on your keyboard. You would scan the entire file for usages of bytes outside this range, (for example, the ASCII control codes, anything with a decimal value of greater than 127, anything not visible on the keyboard) and if one is detected the file would be labeled as binary for confirmation by the user. Text files are generally significantly smaller than binary files, so to scan a text file would take limited time, and scanning of a binary file would halt quickly because it would soon discover a non-ASCII character. Even so, you could have an option to limit the size of a portion of a file to allow scanning on.

Of course this would bring false positives, and this is why a dialog with a pre-selected button with possible values of ASCII, binary, ASCII [save extension] and binary [save extension] (which I mention above as confirmation from the user) should appear upon detection. The save extension options selection would be determined by whether the file had an extension or not.

Thanks for reading :D

Hi i use FileZilla by some month and i have see that the password is only with Can you put in next release a choise between masked password "*" or not masked password "mypass" I have try this solution in another ftp program and is very very comfortable when i not remember the pass for use it in another program or when a have to change ti.. thanks Johnny

PS: FileZilla is the best ftp software!! I like it!!

This will save the password with the user account. This could be a security problem.

great program!

but i find it very very annoying that my settings for the download queue are NOT saved! so i have to set my settings for "use multiple connections" and "proces queue" manually everytime i launch filezilla.

those settings should be stored both global and for every site.

should not be too hard to implement, i think.

thanks

It would be great if you could include in one of the next releases an option for FileZilla to accept "scripts/batches" for uploads/downloads that could be passed as an command line option.

This is usefull in case of scheduled transfers between PCs of multiple files.

Hello,

I'm sure that someone must have requested customizable keyboard shortcuts in the past, but when I searched the feature requests for either "keyboard", "shortcut", or "shortcuts", there were no matches. So, I hereby request customizable keyboard shortcuts. :-)

Thanks for your time.

Could you add the option in the File Transfer overwrite rules that a file could be overwritten based upon the destination file's size. Eg. Overwrite if destination file is bigger/smaller. Thanks for a great product!!

Can an option "Folder size" been added to the context- menu of directories?

In other FTP clients (such as FTP Voyager) there is a very usefull option called "Folder size", which recursively walks through the tree below that folder and counts all files and subdirs below.

Thanks in advance, and success with the project!

Jan-Pieter

The ability to trigger a stored job would be incredibly useful, especially if it was coupled with a command line of some description.

Being able to press an up arrow and hit enter to transfer 10 files I'm modifying every few minutes would save a lot of clicking and dragging, changing my current folder, etc.

Basically:

• Ability to create, modify, save and delete macros to

transfer a file, files, or directory structure

• Ability to do this with a minimum of mousework.

The main reason for this is that with the mouse I find I am constantly losing focus on the areas I need, can't select a bunch of files really quickly (I have to minimise FileZilla, go to explorer, select, drag-n-drop), and that's distracting.

Currently Filezilla handles its own DNS requests, even when using a socks4a proxy. It'd be cool to have just the site name sent to the socks4a proxy, thus eliminating DNS leaks on the client end (like using TOR).

feature: simultaneous split download through multiple clients from multiple machines

Description: i wanted to request something like this: say.. two filzilla clients A and B in entirely different computers connect themselves.. then when a user from A or B gives a file to download, one section of the file is downloaded by A and other section by B. this gives rise to distributed downloading of the same file (starting from different file offsets) so that the overall speed is faster. the user from A or B then can meet physically and get the missing parts from each other.both user A and B have to download less per connection.

of course.. there is no need to be two users.. one user with two computers can manage... and also.. should be able to handle around 10 connections(not only two computers) from 10 different computers, each downloading only part of the file on the FTP server .the connection between the two ftp clients is used to keep it ordered so that there is no repeated downloading of even a single byte from the file from either A or B. maintaining 10 connection may be hard.. but.. say.. a custom named irc channel (made temporarily for the 'talks' between the 10 computers) can be utilised for keeping alll the 10 computers in sync( to know which client is downloading which part of file..)

i think this is very important for people .. with this feature.. user can download a 700mb file by utilising two separate connections, eg: office and home (office can download 350 and home another 350)

i dont think many people will comprehend this feature well.. but.. :->

Thanks in advance, FiRE

hello,

at very first: wonderful, wonderful filezilla! one feature request: when using "quick connect" there pops-up/drops down a list of my latest connections.

now: it would be fine, if i could edit this list, at least delete those, who shouldn't be there any more/aren't used any more.

and there should be a longer list too.

would this be possible?

greetings from very winterly salzburg hans horwath

When I'm trawling through my local file window in FileZilla client 2.2.18.

I often find myself wishing to open a file's target directory or even the selected directory in Explorer.

But there appears to be no way to do so.

Therefore I've got to find this directory or file via Explorer and trawl through the directories *again* which can take an age!

This inability of FileZilla to do this, just makes me and no doubt hundreds of others irated. :-)

But why not save thousands of users grief and add a wee icon or an extra Menu line to do a 'open Container' command on a file or directory right into Explorer please?

Can't be hard to do surely?

Now we can hide FileZilla in systray on minimizing the window. It would be good if there was a shortcut to hide the window in systray.

It would be helpful if there were a windows explorer navigation toolbar with commands such as back, foward, up, delete, views, properties, etc. This would make finding files easier.

I think a great feature would be if FZ could read and store permissions of all the files it downloaded, so it would then have the ability to (optionally) restore those permissions when the files are uploaded back to the server.

This would solve a perpetual problem that I have -- whenever I use FZ to restore files, my website is broken until I manually figure out what the permissions should be.

Could we please have this feature? WS_FTP has it and it's the only thing I miss in FileZilla.

All WS_FTP does is a very rudimentary log:

• time of initiating the transfer
• filename being transferred
• remote filename (even the remote path alone would do,

to avoid rescanning the remote directory in case the file was auto-renamed upon upload)

• direction of transfer (upload/download)

I've also posted about this in the forums:

​http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php? t=1452&highlight=log+wsftp

Hope that helps, Dan Dascalescu ​http://dandv.blogspot.com

wouldn be great to be able to set up connection retry settings (wait, attempts) individually for every server

It would be nice if it was possible to implement the feature of copying files from FileZilla's file explorer (e.g. files on ftp server) by pressing Ctrl+C and pasting them into the Windows explorer by pressing Ctrl+V.

When invoking a manual transfer, with a file highlighted in the local site filename window: 1) right mouse click to invoke manual transfer 2) automatically populate the manual transfer local filename

This should probably be a window sensitive right mouse click - if you are in the remote site filename window, the right mouse click should be aware that the manual transfer is a 'download' and automatically populate the correct field.

If you are in the local site filename window, the right mouse click shown presume you are doing an 'upload' and populate the local site filename window.

Alternatively - should the automatic upload process be knowledgable that the upload target is a mainframe, itcould simply truncate the noteds to 8 characters. For example: put fubar.uploadfile <to a mainfraim> would transfer as fubar.uploadfi or even better fubar.uploadfi.le

thanks, pg

Having a option to allow only one instance would stop accidentsly opening more then one instance of FileZilla (useful for people who have only one target site, and would hence rarely need more than one instance).

​http://optionalreaction.com

Optional) registration as the default URL handler in windows may be added with a registry addition similar to:

--BEGIN-- REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sftp] @="URL:sftp Protocol" "URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sftp\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sftp\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\sftp\shell\open\command] @="\"C:
Program Files
FileZilla
FileZilla.exe\" \"%1\"" --END--

Allowing FZ to register itself for FTP and SFTP URLs would be useful.

For SFTP, this is potentially blocked by this bug: ​http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1454179&group_id=21558&atid=372241

Hello FileZilla-Team!

I really like your Software, it's fast and reliable, but there is one function that would make it perfect:

In addition to filezila, I am using a free, feature- reduced version of ftp-uploader (​http://www.ftp- uploader.de/), which uploads all changed files on a local directory-tree to a specified server. In the registered version, it would do this automatically, that means, it would run in the background, detects changes automatically and startes the upload of the file. In the free version, the program does this only on button press.

It would be fantastic, if FileZilla would offer this feature as an option the configured Servers, so every user can choose, if he wants to work manually or have everything be done without a click.

I hope you find my wish usefull and consider implementing.

yours sincerely, Jens

It would be nice if filezilla could download from multiple hosts with only on filezilla running and the ability speficy to use multiple connections to one host and to the other only one.

When Drag&Drop an directory or more to upload/donwload, don't get all file first in all directories. This often stops when an FTP Error during Get File List occured. So just read the directory content when the specified directory is next in queue.

Please add Transfer Type (Ascii/Binary/Auto) to the context menu that is presented when I right click on a file. Selecting this should override but not change the default setting for transfer type.Thanks Brent Milton

Sometimes when I'm downloading an archive, I'll just add the whole directory by dragging it to the queue pane.

When I do, filezilla will recursively go through the directory structure and add each file. Just like it's supposed to.

But sometimes when a subdir has lots of small files in it, filezilla will spend so long adding those to the queue that it seems to lock up. And it'll loose the ftp connection and be unable to continue traversing the directory stucture for the rest of the files.

The more that gets added, the slower things go. And it'll reach a point where filezilla just locks up for a couple minutes or more and the connection times out and it wont finish adding the rest of the stuff.

Even though the files being added are small and could be downloaded pretty quick, by this point, filezilla is spending more time adding a file to the queue than it would probably take to just go ahead and download it.

.metalink files are simple XML text files that list the multiple locations (Mirrors/P2P) for files, along with checksums & other useful info. There will usually be more than 1 FTP & HTTP source, so a program can get a segment of each file from different sources at the same time. If the download manager doesn't support all or any of the P2P networks listed, then it just uses the mirrors.

This can be really nice for downloading large files like ISOs.

<metalink version="3.0" xmlns="​http://www.metalinker.org/"> <files>

<file name=”example.ext”> <verification>

<hash type="md5">example-md5-hash</hash> <hash type="sha1">example-sha1-hash</hash>

</verification> <resources>

<url type=”ftp”>​ftp://ftp.example.com/example.ext</url> <url

type=”http”>​http://www.example2.com/example.ext</url>

<url

type=”bittorrent>​http://www.ex.com/file.torrent</url>

<url type=”magnet”/> <url type=”ed2k”/> </resources>

</file>

</files> <metalink>

Please add Transfer Type (Ascii/Binary/Auto) to the settings for each site within the Site Manager. Some hosted accounts always take ASCII files, while others take binary (e.g., Zend Optimizer). It is really annoying to keep forgetting to switch from one transfer type to another, depending upon the particular site that one is uploading files to. That should be stored within the settings for that particular site, and would be a really handy feature. Thanks!

Hi,

We have one customer, which have two server. There is an first login password then an other before acces to ftp server. So we need two logins and two passwords before acces to directory ? Where could i register theses two logins and passwords ?

Regards Philippe

I would like to see a system of plugins for FileZilla.

That is, let FileZilla act as the conduit through

which plugin widgets (simple scripts, actions based on logic, etc) could work their magic.

Sifting through the feature requests, I wonder how simple something like the simultaneous local & remote directory switching would be with a script. "cd /home; ls" on local yields a "cd /home; ls" on the remote with an alert (or other action) on error.

Likewise, it may be simpler for an external widget to compare filesizes and dates for automatic local/remote file synchronization. A script could handle an "ignore list" of file types, names or folders. It could handle transfer scheduling, etc.

And etc, etc, etc.

This is a great application and I use it often. Keep up the good work.

some times we need to down load a dir with many level dir in it and each level have many dirs,like cygwin's release dir. now filezilla list all dir and sub dir first,then download everyone. it take a long time and almost always take error"Transfer channel can't be opened.Could not retrieve directory listing". another ftp client, flashfxp,list dir, download files, if have subdir, list and download it,else ,list another same level dir.it's more quickly and errorless when a dir have many level dir and each level have many dirs.

please forgive my poor english.

for sftp connections implement "put -P". There is already a setting "preserve date/time of downloaded file" so add a second one for "preserve date/time of uploaded file". This would only be possible with sftp connections using the documentated "put -P" command.

When you are editting, uploading a set of files, testing and then 'going-around-the-loop' it would be great if the Filezilla FTP client had a keypress/function-key that would repeat the last transfer!

This could take the current 'selection' of files from the file view/use a history/log/queue information.

This would really help and make the operation slicker when bugfixing/debugging remote files.

Many Thanks Mike

I'm working in health care services, and so I'm often dealing with database system with sensitive data. It's a common practice to log everything we do, like telnet session, ftp session, even recording PcAnywhere session (I know : why PcAnywhere ? The choice was beyond my say so...)

Here's some ideas for the Message Log saved to a file :

• remove keep alive system commands from the message log;
• automatically name the file with the remote host IP

address, current date and time (similar to PuTTY);

• ... any other ideas anyone ?

We have a need for GSS authentication, but without encryption after connecting. I believe Filezilla is essentially sending the "private" command to the FTP server.

Basically, we need the same functionality as if you started the unix command line 'ftp' without the '-x' option.

I'd be more than happy to work with your developers to make this happen.

Mike Dopheide dopheide@…

Under the general topic of managing huge downloads more efficiently:

It would be very helpful if there were a way in the front-end of the FileZilla client to turn the speed limiter on and off. Instead, one must go into the preferences.

A very good example of a program that manages bandwidth well is uTorrent. You can set up a schedule in a graphical way that is more intuitive than FileZilla's schedule rules. You can also turn the schedule on and off in the front end by right clicking in the lower status bar. Finally, uTorrent does some very interesting and convienent things with download prioritization.

In the context of the FileZilla interface, it would probably be more consistent to add a button in the main toolbar instead of a context menu in the status bar, though adding both wouldn't hurt.

Additionally, it would be helpful if you could apply speed limit rules on a per-file (or per-directory) basis to limit certain downloads and not to others in the queue.

For instance, let's say I'm downloading a huge DVD ISO of a Linux distro. This will take several days on a slow DSL connection. Rather than sucking up my bandwidth for days on end, I'd set a speed limit. Now, in the middle of this big download, I need to pull down some work-related files. Rather than pausing the big download, turning off the speed limiter, initiating the new download, waiting for it to finish, and restarting the big download again with the speed limit rules, it would be better if I could right-click the big download and simply apply the speed limit to it alone, leaving the new high-priority download to utilize the remainder of my available bandwidth.

I hope this makes sense. I am happy to discuss the feature request further. I'm 'ixnayus' at gmail. Thanks for all your work on a great product.

Many thanks, Steve

As the title says, Filezilla could remember the latest RAW commands used. I frequently use SITE MNT / SITE UMNT, and i have to type them both each time i need to mount or unmount a partition in the remote ftp server (actually, i copy them from a text file).

After a transfer is complete there is no indication as to what in fact was transferred. Have some indentification on the file that was last transferred an that will make it easy to delete it without having to search the files.

Hello!

I wold like to use different proxies for different ftp sites.

Please add Proxy Settings for each host (in host->Advanced).

ps: if you do it -- i will erase my "Core FTP v1.3" :)

Thank you!

If I have some files in the queue and close FileZilla, the queue is saved. After starting FileZilla, the queue is loaded, but not started. So, could there be some checkbox indicating whether to start queue automatically after the program starts?

Hi,

please provide an MSI package if possible - would make live much more easier as FileZilla already does ... ;-)

Some users can only access their files via FTP and don't want to waste bandwidth downloading log files which can be MBytes in size every few minutes.

How about a mechanism to tail a file? Right-click and select "tail", which would open up a resizable window that would constantly show the last x lines of the file. It would use the same login settings that it used to get in via FTP. I would use this *all* the time.

(Example for a perl script: ​http://hamstersoup.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/ftptail/ )

could it say somewhere, how fast it is downloading/uploading?

Would you please provide an internal tool that can save and edit transfer queue including paths, accounts etc?

Thanks for your excellent work.

The up directory button for the remote server is within the directory tree structure. When you have a directory with a large amount of files that you sort in different ways you often have to keep scrolling up and down to find the "Up 1 Directory" button.

It would be nicer if it was a permanent button just to the left of the "Remote Site" Label so that you could change directories without having to scroll

hi,

If I have a sftp connection open it will be useful to direct jump into ssh-terminal. If username/password saved this can add to the ssh-terminal, too.

The winscp application have implemented this function ;)

People who use FZ Client for transfering jpeg's strongly feel the necessity of thumbnail display in the local site side at least if not in both panels(local and remote)

It would be nice if you could make the queue stop after the current transfer has finished.

enable the sitemanager to store its sites in an ldap server to make it possible to work with the same sites at home, in office, on the road...

Dependent on [1052205] simultaneous folder-change (directory "follow me").

Upload files and directories listed in a user-specified text file.

With the pairing logic outlined in [1052205], where there's an association between a local directory tree and a server directory tree, each line need only specify the file in one location (for example, using the local path). Optionally, each line could be prefixed with "send" or "receive" tokens.

Would be nice, if I could copy all items of the "failed downloads"-list to the clipboard by one click. So I could paste it into an email to the person/company, who provides the files I want to download. I currently have the problem, that the server of a company has problems with long filenames, spaces and umlauts. With the feature I could easily send them all the files they have to rename.

I have my interface set up like so:

Edit > Settings > Interface > Layout > Layout of file and directory panes: "Widescreen"

With the following panes visible:

• message log
• local file listing (mandatory)
• remote directory tree
• remote file listing (mandatory)
• transfer queue

Whenever I adjust the widths of the three panels in the middle (local file listing, remote directory tree, and remote file listing) and then maximize/restore the window, the sizes get screwed up--especially on the remote directory tree.

I would like the width of each panel to be remembered as a percentage of the total width of the entire FileZilla window (e.g. left to right: local file listing 50%, remote directory tree 15%, and remote file listing 35%) and remain this way regardless of how I resize the main application to fit within my Desktop.

I think that would be nicer than whatever it's doing now.

Please see SmartFTP for an example of an FTP client that implements the XCRC (transfer with CRC) command.

FileZilla Client should implement XCRC or an equivalently reliable, automatic, and easy-to-use method to guarantee that a file was indeed transferred correctly between the FTP server and the client.

Requirements for this feature request to be considered resolved:

1. The feature should be on by default and used automatically whenever connected to a server supporting it.

2. The client should visually warn the user when they are connected to a server that does not support the integrity checking so they can be aware and make other arrangements for verifying the integrity of their transfers with the server.

3. The user shouldn't have to understand anything about hashing algorithms or tools, or configure anything extra, or install any extra plug-ins, for this feature to work. It should be a built-in, automatic, silent part of the existing FileZilla user experience.

4. The protocol/command/method used must adhere to a published open standard. If no such adequate standard already exists, one should be created and published by the FileZilla developers.

5. The integrity checking should work on any kind of file, any size of file, and play well with existing feature such as resume of interrupted transfers.

We have customers who post artwork files to our web server.

What I would like is to have a feature in Filezilla that would check the directory at specified intervals for new files, and then download them.

Addittionaly I would like it to be able to leave the files on the server for a specified amount of time, and once the time has expired, delete the files.

And lastly I would like to be able to make certain files in the directory exempt from deletion.

Note: This is one of a few requests currently posted in the forum (​http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14155#14155).

When making a connection that has no local directory specified (e.g. quick connections), it would be very useful to have an option for FZ3 to open either (1) a user-specified default directory (e.g. user's desktop) or (2) use the previously used local directory. FZ3 currently defaults to the last used directory, but this isn't necessarily the most preferable.

Filezilla 3.0 gives no apparent notification of a skipped transfer when the setting to automatically over write older files is in effect and the target file is newer. A flag or other indication of non-transfer is appropriate here instead of recording the action as a successful transfer.

If possible, just showing the word "skipped" in the queue would make the picture much clearer. Such a tweak would make this excellent utility even better.

Each time a skipped transfer occurs the successful transfer count goes up even though no transfer occurred.

Cannot navigate to a folder/file by typing its name.

To see what I mean open windows explorer, select an item in the listview or the treeview and start typing the name of a file or subfolder present in the current directory.

Request to have a shortcut key like "alt+key or ctrl+key" to bring up the Enter Custom Command window.

It's not a big deal for the two extra mouse clicks to get to it, but it would make it easier if you admin an FTPD that uses custom site commands to accomplish different tasks.

1)Add a counter that it comes visualized under or close to the word "queue: 0 byte ". The counter it must begin its job when you connect yourself in a server. The counter it must work until the fine ones when not there is more the job than download or upload of files in the server. The counter it must contain hours: minutes:seconds.

example: 14:03:22

It would be even more handy to have the files being edited shown in another tab, instead of a dialog. The space is already used by that tab bar, might as well fill it.

I am using FileZilla Client 3.0.1. I just found that if I use anonymous to login FTP server, the "password" being sent by FileZilla Client is hardcoded to anon@localhost, which causes troubles when I connect to some FTP servers which checks the validity of email addresses, which is used as password. For example, the server ftp.cse.cuhk.edu.hk (one of my favourite mirrors) is one of them which checks the password if it is a valid email address.

I would like to have a feature that let users to configure the anonymous password being sent, like in FileZilla 2.

It'd be helpful to me if there was be an option to automatically expand the display of remote folders/directories directly under the current remote folder/directory (like when you hit the [+] to the left of a folder/directory) in the remote tree pane on connection and while browsing, similar to Windows Explorer's simple folder view (XP).

2.2.3 let me move the toolbars all into one line, that was a great way to save desktop space an would love to see it again.

Version 3 changed the drag and drop behavior from dropping in the current folder, to dropping into the subfolder closest to the pointer. This is not typical OS behavior, and would be very difficult to get used to. Please revert to the previous behavior, or provide an option to do so.

FYI, for this and other reasons (file edit function removed in version 3), I've reverted to version 2. Version 2 is a great tool, but I think version 3 is going in the wrong direction.

It would be nice if there was a "Browse..." button next to "Default remote directory" on the Advanced tab of the Site Manager. Since (if) the log in information is already supplied on the General tab, Filezilla (I guess) could log on to the server and retrieve the directory tree, and using that information create a "Browse for Folder" dialog such as the one opened when clicking the "Browse..." button next to "Default local directory".

It would be nice if FilleZilla client supported something that I think is called "segmented downloading": the possibility to download a file using multiple connections to the same server; each connection would download a different segment from the same file.

I just had a situation with a stupid ISP, that severely limits the bandwidth on each TCP connection, but not for all connections.

Thank you.

You view the content of a folder (on your PC). Then this content is changed (for instance a file is copied to this folder). Now FileZilla will not display the changes until you switch to another folder and then go back to the one you have been in before.

It should show the changes immediatelly (as for instance Windows Explorer does).

The issue has already been discussed, but there is not yet a final answer from the developers, so I am posting this feature request.

I (and tons of other people) would like to have the possibility to do an automatic ASCII conversion during SFTP transfers of text files.

I know that this should be supported on server side and the current SSH server implementations lack support for it, but it could be easily done on client side as WinSCP is doing.

Otherwise we will need to switch to another program.

Thanks a lot, Paolo

Add context menu to local folders to allow opening that folder in some external file manager, like Windows Explorer (CuteFTP already has this feature.)

When using the File Manager command "Copy Connection To Site Manager", include local site properties as well. Usually, I'm already at the local and remote folders I want when I choose that command, but then I still have to browse for the local folder. No no no! Bad Filezilla, bad!

In OpenVMS, files are stored in versions with semicolons, like this:

2007346.AVR;2

is version 2 of the 2007346.AVR file.

In the site manager, the only way to specify an ASCII transfer is to input the extension. Inputting .AVR will not cause different versions of this file to be sent in ASCII.

Could we possibly have a wildcard character for the "Files to send as ASCII" listing? For the above, I would be able to list

AVR*

which would get any and all versions of this file in ASCII.

Thanks again for all the hard work. It is very much appreciated.

It would be nice if directories that still haven't been opened had the little plus sign beside them by default, which would then act as if the directory itself was clicked if there is nothing to actually collapse.

It would save the extra click from doubleclicking the folder every time, and it would make it consistent with Explorer's behavior in some situations where it doesn't know what's in the folder.

It would be very helpful to have icons on the toolbar to be able to connect directly to a site in site manager without having to open site manager or click the dropdown. The dropdown, while convenient, is very small and both I and several others who use the software have often said we thought it would be a good idea to do this.

Better yet, a command line ability to connect to a site in site manager via icon on the desktop.

Thanks for your time and thanks to all for their fantastic work on this and other projects.

Highest Regards,

Paul

I suggest to replace "Always use this action" with sth. like "Always use this action for the current session."

I found it highly irritating, as I thought this setting change would be permanent.

Just an idea and keep up the good work. :)

A item in the rightclick-popup-menu of a local file, opening a properties-window of the file. I don't know if this is possible for all os, but at least for windows that would be great.

It would be even greater if the whole right-click menu would be the one from the operating system, as above don't know if this works with different os.

It would be very useful if FileZilla had a "site management mode" where it allowed me to designate a "logical root" directory for both local and remote servers. The two things that would be different in the interface when it was in this mode would be that it would prevent you from browsing "up" from the logical root, and that most transfer functions would only copy to the same level in the tree (for example if you right-clicked on /one/two/three/four on the remote site and chose download, it would always download to /one/two/three/four on the local site regardless of which directory was "current" in the left pane). You could always use drag-n-drop to force the tool to copy directories to a different location in the local tree (which would mean that dragging works exactly as it does now).

This mode would be extremely useful for web site developers and account managers who maintain a complete copy of their server account files on their local machine and constantly copy files back and forth. It would not eliminate copying errors, but would greatly reduce them.

I just thought of it, it would come rather handy in some occasions, to be able to compare online and local files, throu WinMerge or similar. On downloading, the 'overwrite?' popup could give the option to compare, merge or the current options.

If compared, the online version could be stored in a temporary file for comparison.

Hi,

I've been using Filezilla for many years now and it's great but a few very simple things could make it even more usable.

Would it be possible to increase the width of the loginfields host / username / password because it happens a lot that a typo isn't visible because of the too narrow fields.

If possible, I would even request that we could drag the fields to the desired width and that these sizes get stored. If this isn't possible I would certainly request the host / username filed to be at least double the size they are now.

Thanks in advance. Bart

would be very helpfull to see progress percentage of current file transfer on taskbar properties in windows, so that when you have filezilla minimized during a long transfer, you can quickly see the progress amount without having to restore/maximize filezilla. thanks!

Local files deleted with Filezilla do not go to recycle bin, are permenantly deleted.

Most of my work with FTP is communicating with an internal Sun Sparc 5 CPU's (on Unix) used on five different test systems. The file structure is such that there are numerous shortcuts and redirects to deeply buried locations, both on the local system and across the network between the other test systems (all Unix).

I currently use FTP Voyager 13.x, and one of its key features that seems lacking in most (if not all) other FTP clients is to show (on the directory tree), what are folder shortcuts, and what is local.

When clicking on a folder shortcut icon (as shown by a typical arrow on the icon), it shows the contents of that folder (like a mapped drive in Explore), whereas FileZilla 3 redirects the path to the actual shortcut's destination, not on the shortcut name. There seems to be no indication on the directory tree what is local and what are shortcuts. There seems to be no way to determine what the actual path of a shortcut is (which FTP Voyager does show), and no folder properties.

Also, the underlying paths are not refreshed (as indicated by the "?" on the icon), which really would be helpful. In actuality, the Explore type of interface (such as that used in FTP Voyager) is very useful and more intuitive, which makes it very easy to navigate.

FileZilla is a fine program, and I'm merely pointing out these feature differences (and annoyances) to make FileZilla a better product. Thanks.

I have the need to download a lot of litlle files with the original date/time information. Why your client has choosen to apply the 'actual' date/time instead of keep the original ones?

Sorry for my english, i'll try to explain:

If I download 15.000 files using the option "overwrite if more recent" in the "completed download" tab I see ALL of 15k files, but which of them are really ben downloaded?

Is it possible to make a report of effectively downloaded file?

If I drag and drop with the new versions I often drag it on top of a folder because the folder selection area goes all the way to the right.

In the older versions the folder selection area would only go on the name of the folder. That's why I removed filezilla 3 and went back to the 2 versions.

Here you see filezilla 3 with the wide selection area: ​http://onlyfreewares04.googlepages.com/s_filezilla.gif

And here the old filezilla: ​http://www.jeremysdirectory.com/images/filezilla.png

Maybe you should change this on the next release? :)

I think the "There is a new version available" alerts at program launch are great. But I rarely install the update right then, because I've always opened FileZilla for an immediate need. I would like to see another button in this alert screen that would give me the option "Install after current session" or similar wording. Clicking this would open FileZilla normally, but would launch the update process when the application is closed (and would not restart FileZilla when the update is finished installing).

To determine which Proxy should be used, browsers use Proxy Autoconfiguration Files. If Filezilla could use these Files too, manual configuration would become unnessecary in enterprise environments.

Information about PAC Files can be found on this link: ​http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/relnotes/demo/proxy-live.html

Hi and thanks for this great product.

It would be a great help if I can do the directories comparison size AND date together.

Actualy, I do a date comparison THEN a size comparison.

in the menu "View" " directory comparison" I can choose between size and date.

I would like 2 check box, one filesize and one time.

Thank in advance

Eric

Some FTP servers (eg ftp.worldofspectrum.org) limit the number of transfers using file counts instead of the number of bytes transfered. These sites often impose a file limit per day.

Would it be possible to have some settings that echo these limits.

Example:

Lets say we have a server that limits the number of files per ftp session to 200 and the number of files per day to 2000.

The FTP client queues up several folders worth of transfers totalling 2500 files.

FileZilla counts each transfer until the max files per session (as defined in site settings, 200 in this example) is reached. FileZilla then suspends the queue, disconnects from the remote server, waits a few seconds then reconnects (starting a new session) and resumes the queue. This process repeats (10 times in this example) until the number of files per day limit (also defined in site settings, 2000 in this example) is reached. Filezilla then suspends the queue, storing the remaining 500 queued entries, and refusing reconnection to the server for 24 hours.

I think it would be nice if users could specify different speed limits for different sites. Right now, there is only one global setting to control this.

My reason for this is as follows. I use FileZilla to download from my computer at home (SFTP), and in order not to kill my VOIP, I want to set a download speed limit to something low (e.g. 15kBps). However, if I'm downloading from some crazy fast site later on, I have to go change the global setting in order to get the good speed.

Feature request RFE# 1707774 can be enhanced if after certain actions of field "Action after queue completion", the entries in "Failed Transfers" and "Successful Transfers" are stored and available the next time FileZilla client is opened.

E.g. after actions such as "Reboot system", "Shutdown system" or "Close FileZilla", the next time FileZilla is opened the user does not know if the transfer completed correctly or not, because "Failed Transfers" and "Successful Transfers" are empty.

Is it possible to keep information of fields "Failed Transfers" and "Successful Transfers" until the user decides to clear them, and not only until FileZilla is closed?

I would be good (for me) if it was possible to separate view from edit and assign two separate programs to do those tasks. For example I tend to only make minor alterations to files from within filezilla and so use notepad, but if I want to view a file I will use Firefox.

Filezilla forget the download/failed/succesfull Queue after closed the client

It should be viewable after close / restart.