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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 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. :)

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.

I think it would be great to have an option in XP File Explorer to right click and send the selected file to any of the sites that are set up in filezilla.

Obviously it would have to just send it to the root/default folder that you have set in filezilla. But I know of lots of times where I am hunting stuff down in XP File Explorer and would love to just right click and hit FTP to -> "Pick Sitename".

Hope that explains the request. Also just for reference I did research quite a bit doing this on my own hacking my regedit or send to options and because of the internal list stored in Filezilla of the sites none of the things I found would work.

Thanks in advance. Also thank you for all your hard work on a great project. Filezilla is truly outstanding.

Whenever i delete a file on my production servers i want to make sure i havn't clicked on the wrong file.

Please add the file name / folder name in the confirm dialog of the element that will be deleted.

This is at the same time an improvement request and a bug. Right now, when you delete one directory, it is not possible to delete another until the first deletion is done.

It could be nice to be able to delete several directories at the same time from the directory tree window... And that the directory tree window does not follow the deletion during the time it occurs.

When using drag-and-drop to move files and folders inside filezilla (drag-and-drop being the only method i have found in FZ so far) i experience problems when there is a long list of files as i cannot seem to scroll up the list when dragging files, and hence cannot get the files to go into the directory i want. Also, sometimes you want to move files/folder into heavily nested folders and the drag and drop method is inefficient. It would be good to have the directory be editable in a properties window for selected files and folders, that way you can just type a new directory and they will be moved there.

I've been really disappointed to see, that filezilla 3.0.8.1 misses the feature to view/edit files on the local harddisk, while there is no connection to a ftp server. This feature already worked in filezilla 2 and I really miss it.

I would like to see shortcut to set the current directory (on the home or the remote) as the initial directory for that connection, after you have already connected.

Currently, you have to go back to the site settings find the appropriate text field, and type in the path manually.

I see there are a lot of requests for context menu items, so maybe this could be a button. Perhaps on the path bar?

Thanks. And thanks for such great software. I dumped my pirated SFTP proggie because you provided such a viable and legal alternative, that I can even run from a flash drive.

Add command line parameter that allows the site and folder.

Then in Windows at least the registry could be changed so that any link such as ​ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/desktop/aspire_e360/

on a web page or in an email would invoke Filezilla, open the site and position to the folder.

Hello,

It is possible to add the ability to preserve the datestamp of directories? (as for files, but for dirs while downloading them recursively)

Thanks, and keep up the good work.

Gretz.

Enhance the "preserve timestamps of transfered files" feature, by adding an option to preserve in only 1 direction or the other.

For example, I'd like be able to download files preserving timestamps, but upload files with the current time.

This will be useful for uploading JSP files to a Tomcat server.

Under the "Transfer" menu... rename menu item:

"preserve timestamps of transfered files"

to:

"preserve timestamps of all transfered files"

add menu items:

"preserve timestamps of uploaded files only" "preserve timestamps of download files only"

Implement a "touch" command on the right-click of a file to set the current timestamp.

I'using KeePass, a password manager that sends logins and/or password to windows, looking for thei title.

So I don't store site passwords in FileZilla, but I define each parameter of the sites, and set the autentication method to "Ask for password".

It would be nice to have something like "Enter password for Name_of_the_site_as_specified_in_site_manager" instead of simply "Enter password" when I connect to a site.

This way KeePass would automatically recognize which password to use for every site.

Thanks again for your grreat work. The whole world appreciate it.

Hi,

it would be useful if there were a context menu entry "set as local directory" when clicking in the local site window. This would then set the "default local directory" that at the moment has to be set via site manager and "advanced" register tab.

Lars

In version 3.0.9.3 (and 3.0.x.x versions), some features included into 2.2.32 are no more implemented.

That features are all linked to download queue management:

• Reordering (up, down, last, bottom,...) list of file in the waiting downloading queue
• Add priority on file download

These features can be linked to the following other demand : ​http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1962034&group_id=21558&atid=372244

They implement it and extend the ordering command.

That is not a protocol mandatory feature, but that provide an end-user usefull feature mainly in case of multi-file download.

In my case, I can program the download of more than 30 files simultaneously (from the same site), sometime the download can't be achieved in one time (Server side failures). Then I have only some part of all files on my local disk.

Because the download queue management doesn't provide any options to drive the download file's order choice based on the yet downloaded size against the full file size evaluation (when possible), that features that provide to user the capability to 'manually' reordering the downloaded planned queue can be *very* usefull to be sure to have at least some of them quickly complet.

E.g. : I have 10 files with a size between 500 MB and 1.5 GB. The first one (1.5 GB) have 50% of its data downloaded, the third one (500 MB) have 10%. I need relaunch the download, but this time I want invert the order because the third one have only 450 MB of data that must be downloaded, against the 750 MB of the first one. If I have the same download speed for the both of them, then the third one (450 MB) can be downloaded quickess than the first one (750 MB).

there should be a setting, to seperate simultanios downloads by sites.

problem: DSL hat today 10 MBit and more. if i have to download files from severl servers, it should start for ech sit eone queue, if my bandwidth is not fully used. at the oment muc difficut, becase i have to play withpriority and mark single files and then restart queue.

When one want to include FTP support in a program without having to code a native FTP client in the program, it would be nice to be able to call a FileZilla dll to get the connection, file transfert, directory listing, and so on, using the Filezilla connection that the user have already defined using Filezilla instead of having to reinvente Fileilla inside the program.

This was initially posted on the forum by Guba.

Post subject: New feature request: automatic directory selection

Hello. I have just downloaded FZ and I have to say that is quite nice. I have a suggestion for a new feature, that is quite simple to develop and useful for all those use tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver. When I upload a file to a server I have to make myself sure that in the "remote files" panel must be selected the same correpondent directory where the file is destined to, or I will put the file in the wrong place. This is quite annoying because it can be necessary to edit files that are located in different directories, for several reasons. For instance it could be needed to edit a functions file, while a CSS together with the file that uses both. If I have three branches I have to seselct each time the different remote directory where I have to put each file, one at a time. With a "parallel directory" feature this couldn't be required, because each file belongs to a directory, both local and remote. This is a feature that is missing on the various FTP clients I have seen and used, and I think it is quite useful for professionals.

Hello, It seems that MODE Z compression option (available in filezilla 2.2.x) is not available in filezilla 3.x. The MODE Z seems supported in filezilla 3 as it is accepted when we enter MODE Z in custom command. Please can you add this option. Thanks by advance regards.

Filezilla already has some "after transfer" actions, but it would be nicer if it could provide an interface to existing notification frameworks where possible.

The Mac has the widely used Growl notification framework for telling the user that something has happened. ​http://growl.info/

On Windows, Snarl is a similar framework that provides the same capability. ​http://www.fullphat.net/

On Linux (Gnome) there is the Mumbles project. ​http://www.mumbles-project.org/

Filezilla should support all of these frameworks - perhaps by using an additional plugin download that interfaces to each framework on the appropriate platform.

Dear Tim and others,

Would it be possible to add the FileZilla 2 "Dowload as..." feature to FileZilla 3 as well?

Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work!

Best regards,

Bo

I would like a file progress bar when Filezilla is minimized on the Desktop.

Thanks,

Greg

A convenient way to Add a Site from among the Site Manager's entries to the QuickConnect Bar, and thence to the QuickConnect History/Menu, would be nice to have.

An additional button at the bottom of the Site Entries tree, "Add to QC Bar", that would copy the selected Site's relevant fields to the QuickConnect Bar, would satisfy this nicely.

Meanwhile, selecting from the Site Manager's pull-down list works pretty well... ;-}

Thanks...

On the latest release (3.1.0.1) of FileZilla, when one right-clicks an item on the server panel and chooses the "View/Edit" option, an alert popups asking whether the user would like to continue editing the local file or download and overwrite the local file.

I would like to save my preference of these two options. For example, I would like a checkbox below the two options with the text "Save preference" so that I can always automatically choose to download the file again an overwrite the local file.

Thanks for such a great product!!

In the "Local site:" and "Remote site:" path textboxes, it would be very helpful to support the commonly used Ctrl-backspace combination to backspace an entire word, and Ctrl-shift-backspace to highlight an entire word.

Other clients I've used supported this and I find myself typing it a lot. It wouldn't be so bad if typing that combination didn't insert a strange extended character that is represented (on my system; Windows XP) as a hollow rectangle.

I would love to see a improvement to the queued file listing which is that instead of just having a flat list of files it would have the files in a collapsible tree view similar to the local/server browser panels. This would be really helpful in cases where we have say ten of folders queued with hundreds of files in them and we want to remove one or more of these folders(and files/folders contained within) from the queue. The other day I had to select all the 200+ files part of a single folder which I wanted to remove from the queue.With this view I would just select the topmost folder and delete that.

As a possible addition the folder row could show a progress bar for the average upload progress of the files/folder under it too.

Because I've tried to connnect to my ftp server using the wrong password, I now have three identical entries in my Quickconnect list, all with the same server/username, but different passwords. Hence only one which will work, and I have to remember which one.

Keep up the excellent work - lovely piece of software!

For editing files you can define a standard editor. I would like to have that for viewing files as well. Didn´t find something like that in the existing tickets.

Background:

When I select "open" in the context menu of a text file (txt, log, dat, js, ...) on the local side always the Windows recommended/standard application is used to open this file even if there is a different application assigned in the Windows explorer file type options (Notepad2 in most cases).

Example: *.log

If you look that type up in Tools/Folder Options/File Types of the Windows explorer, you will find that the type shall be opened using Notepad2 which works on double clicks in the windows explorer. If you click on "Change", you probably see that the Windows Notepad is selected as default editor. This one is then used by FileZilla for some reason. But I want FileZilla to use Notepad2 as well (which is also defined as standard editor for editing files in my environment).

Other file types like *.js or *.html or *.bat could also require a different handler - especially html files shall not be opened in a browser but in a text editor when I try to open it from FileZilla - mostly I do not want to view but edit them before uploading it again, for instance to remove a typo.

If my writing not clear enough, please come back to me ;)

Best regards, Kristian

I would like an option to place the message log window at the bottom of the filezilla window.

Hi,

I know about this bug very long time and I have still hoped that this bug will be fixed in new a release but I have mistaken. :)

So where is the problem ? I will write how reproduce the bug.

Create direcory e.g. test/ and in this direcory create directory .svn/ (or file .svn), turn on "Directory listing filters" and create filter which will filter .svn direcory(or file) and try upload this direcory. Filezilla doesn't upload this directory.

It works with any number of filtered items. But if directory contain some or only one unfiltered dir or file, then the directory will be uploaded.

It affects downloading as well and when You try delete that directory with filtered dir or files on FTP!, Filezilla doesn't delete that folder.

Forced SSL on filezilla server is great option but it has two annoying side effects that could be removed:

• if there is some 3rd party software involved (like html interface to web server) it forces admin to use interface that supports encrypted connections. There is a lack of such interfaces on web.
• wasting resources in case of loopback connections

The simple workaround would be to check connection if it comes from localhost and disable encryption.

It is probably one if to set as i saw you allready have IsLocalConnection() functions implemented so it could probably be done quite fast but currently i dont have additional time to modify server, if someone can do it quick please do it...

Save to Sites from teh Quick Connect Menu should open up the sites Dialog with the information populated from the quick connect.

Like WINSCP, when connected to a SFTP site, a menu item should have an option to launch putty. It would be great if that could log you in but I'm fine with it connecting and prompting for your password. This would eliminate to the need to manage sites on putty and filezilla.

In 3.1.3 client I can no longer establish a connection with a Unisys Libra host. This used to work on 3.0.9.2. The issue seems to be that the format of the reponse to a PWD command appears no longer to be accepted. The response will be something like

257 "(MOUNTFORD) ON ERSTE" is the current working directory.

A Filezilla trace shows Trace: ControlSocket.cpp(356): Failed to parse returned path. caller=0p17025c0

and the connection is broken. Trace of an attempt to connect to a host 'ucscahu' shown below.

15:38:15 Status: Resolving address of ucscahu 15:38:15 Status: Connecting to 192.39.46.230:21... 15:38:15 Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message... 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::OnReceive() 15:38:25 Response: 220 FTP Services for ClearPath MCP: Server version 52.189.8008 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::SendNextCommand() 15:38:25 Command: USER mountford 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::OnReceive() 15:38:25 Response: 331 UserName received; please send the PassWord. 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::SendNextCommand() 15:38:25 Command: PASS * 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::OnReceive() 15:38:25 Response: 230 User MOUNTFORD logged in; you may proceed. 15:38:25 Status: Connected 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::ResetOperation(0) 15:38:25 Trace: CControlSocket::ResetOperation(0) 15:38:25 Status: Retrieving directory listing... 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::SendNextCommand() 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::ChangeDirSend() 15:38:25 Command: PWD 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::OnReceive() 15:38:25 Response: 257 "(MOUNTFORD) ON ERSTE" is the current working directory. 15:38:25 Trace: ControlSocket.cpp(356): Failed to parse returned path. caller=0p17025c0 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::ResetOperation(2) 15:38:25 Trace: CControlSocket::ResetOperation(2) 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::ParseSubcommandResult(2) 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::ListSubcommandResult() 15:38:25 Trace: state = 1 15:38:25 Trace: CFtpControlSocket::ResetOperation(2) 15:38:25 Trace: CControlSocket::ResetOperation(2) 15:38:25 Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing

We can 'Swap local and remote panes'. The directions of the arrows in the icons of 'Download', 'Upload' and 'Add files to queue' items in the pop-up menu match unswapped original panes. It will be better if arrows with reversed directions are used when the panes are swapped. The default orientations of the arrows cause counter-intuition when the panes are swapped.

There could be possibility to delete one item from history, not only clear the whole history.

This could be done e.g. from menu, which would open with right mouse button. Now also right mouse button opens FTP/SFTP connection.

FileZilla server is surely a very powerful and great tool. Congratulation for the excellent work! What is just missing for me to forget about other file-sharing systems is a little integration in Windows in order to make easy directory sharing (The idea behind Weezo for example).

In actual version, to share a directory: I need to open the FileZilla Server Interface, click on 'groups>Shared Folders>Add', browse the directory, edit an alias and set the rights. I must du that again for every group/user I want this folder to be added to.

In the proposal, to share a directory: I right click on the folder in the explorer to get the context-menu, I select 'share with FileZillaServer', a dialogue-windows opens up showing in first colomn all the groups/users available in FileZilla, in front of which the access right for this folder are represented as check-boxes. In few clicks in beside every group/users, I can then enable different access to this directory to different users... The directory is then added (aliased) to the root of every user/group share.

I think this small addition would differentiate FileZilla from the other FTP clients, that are all user-centric, and set it as a new reference for directory-sharing (which is technically not much different, but it just a matter of interfacing).

Whenever I send small files (less than 6 kb, maybe more) to the AS400 server, they will have zero file size (ie. empty). There is no difference between binary and text files.

This happens on several AS400 hosts of the same type.

I access them using a Juniper VPN client. ("Windows Secure Application Manager")

See filezilla log file for details.

Hi FileZilla-Team,

I'm missing a function for enabling/disabling the FTP server (and/or special rules, such as bandwidth management) at a definite time.

My Problem is: I'm working in a company that needs a FTP server, so we decided to set up FileZilla Server on a Windows machine. Because of a very slow internet connection, we're in trouble with some other internet applications in the daytime. The idea to save bandwidth is, to disable the FTP server function during the day and enable it at night.

I know it can be realized via the Task Scheduler in Windows, that is able to start or stop services. But in case of a stopped service, you only get a message from your FTP client, that the server isn't available/don't respond. A much better idea is to send a short "Welcome" message to the client and then close the connection. The "Welcome" message should be freely chosen. So a customer, that wants to access the FTP server during daytime, gets a message including opening hours of the FTP server. That's much better than "no answer from the server"!

I have been trying to upload a gigantic directory of 98,000 pdf files, about 150gb worth. I don't expect filezilla to play nice with queues of this size. However I am in the process of double checking that all the files made it and when I select a chunk of about 10,000 files and then choose "overwrite if file sizes are different" it seems to error out everytime. It starts to run through the queue then after a few seconds it errors out with the Microsoft send a bug report message. When I try the same chunk of files and I choose "skip" files that are the same it runs ok.

I am using 3.1.5 I am using FTP.

When catching up, restaring a big tree of files. the most obvious action for "default file exists action" in the settings dialog would be, "Resume if smaller, warn if larger, skip if same size". That option doesn't exist, and it really should. When set to "Resume", it Resumes ALL files that already exist, even though 99 of them are complete and the same size. Filezilla client says REST (restart) and then RETR (retrieve) looking for the 350,000,000th byte of a file of 350,000,000 bytes long. The FTP server sends back "0 bytes" (the rest of the file). Success. Next file. Oh, it exists too... same. You could die of old age before it gets back to work on transfering a 4GB tree of 50,000 small files. So you are forced to choose "Skip" and then manually figure out which 100 files came up short due to all those internet interuptions.

Using latest Filezilla Client 3.1.5 and latest Serv-U Server 7.2. Advocate for XCRC and XMD5 commands too.

I would like Filezilla to have an option to upload files to a temporary name on the server, and rename the files when done. For example:

1. Upload file 1234.dat to server, calling the file 1234.dat.tmp on the server
2. When the file transfer is complete, and if the transfer was binary, check that the size of the file 1234.dat.tmp on the server is correct
3. If the the size is correct, rename the file on the server from 1234.dat.tmp to 1234.dat

Then you know the file on the server is done. This way, it would be much easier to know:

1. if any files are not completely successfully uploaded (error detection),
2. which files are not complete, or are currently uploading (error correction), and
3. which files are complete, so they can be processed further as required

There's a bunch of cases where functionality like this would be really useful, so this would at least be a great option. I think perhaps it could be a good default behaviour as well.

Assume a user is uploading 1234.dat to an FTP server, and is concerned that the file will make it across.

A really useful option for the integrity conscious out there would be for filezilla to calculate the md5sum of a file being uploaded (virtually free, since the entire file is being read anyway), and when the file transfer is complete, upload a file called 1234.dat.md5 (or perhaps md5/1234.dat) that contains the md5sum of the original file, so that it can be verified on the server side.

TCP handles integrity to some extent, but it is not the most robust method. Bugs in an FTP server could also be detected like this, and memory/disk errors on the FTP server.

Borrowing a design concept from Mozilla Firefox, it is kindly requested to implement an optional method to clear private data upon exiting the application.

Perhaps introducing a page under Settings could facilitate this feature. The behavior of this page would allow the user to select any or all of the private data categories (Clear quickconnect history, Clear reconnect information, Clear Site Manager entries, Clear transfer queue) to clear automatically when closing the application.

Regards.

I would like to see a setup so as to store paticular configurations for overwriting files and other things for paticular folder names.

I am constantly working with the same 12 or so folders, the root folder never changes, some of them have a change about once a month, and some of them there are changes made every day. I would love to have a confirmation notice when it comes to folders in the updated infrequently folders, but i want it supressed in the folders that I am always going into.

I think it would be a good feature if FileZilla could read the folder name and apply special permissions if it matches a name in a configuration file.

When the destination file already exist, and we click on "Cancel" on the dialog window, the transfer is not done,

but the transfer is added in Successfull transfers list This is not correct.

FileZilla 3.1.5.1

It would be very very beneficial if an option is provided, that simply renames the existing file with a timestamp.

e.g. When I upload a file named index.php to a server and if the FileZilla finds index.php already existing on the server it should rename the existing version to index<timestamp>.php and copy the new one from local source. This would be a great versioning feature and will help many programmers.

To recreate:

1. Click the arrow in either "local site" or "remote site" boxes.
2. Press up/down to select a previous path from your history.
3. Using only the keyboard (i.e. don't click in the box) type a different path, or press right add a subfolder to the path.

If you press Enter here the path will just disappear from the box, rather than opening the path you've typed in the box.

On the "Check for updates" window, I would like to see an option (checkbox) to automatically delete the installation file after the update is complete.

Currently, the user is asked where to download the update file. After the update is complete, the .EXE file is left in the download directory and must be manually deleted by the user.

Hi again FzP,

I loved WS_FTP's history feature.. If I logged back in tomorrow or in three months it still shows the last 25-30 directories that I went to all on a site profile basis. So I didn't have to remember or retype any of those long or hard to recall deep down directories - it was great and my only (well, main) :) disappointment with FZ...

It also has 'sound' notification when a D/L is finished - nice if you're D/Ling larger files and are away from the computer..

If possible, can that (they) be added..

Thanks much, Nick. . .

I would like to suggest alternating background color for file list rows. On very wide monitors (16:9) it is quite hard to visually follow line from filename to attributes.

Thank you.

Hello! My name is Pablo Massa, I am a graphic designer/web developer, I have 24 years, live in Montevideo-Uruguay and use FileZilla.

I send you a screenshot with a feature suggestion, it was fun to emulate the interface of Filezilla. ​http://www.crepesweb.com/no-robots/otros/feature-filezilla.png Feature Suggestion (online too)

Sincerely, Pablo.

Is there any reason why disconnects should reset the elapsed time?

It would make sense for a user-initiated disconnect to reset the timer, but server timeouts / auto-reconnects should not reset the timer. This resetting basically makes the elapsed time stat useless, especially for transferring large files.

Maybe this should also be a feature request to have this as a changeable option for the user?

I use FZ mostly for authenticated SFTP connections, only occasionally for plain FTP connections and almost never for *anonymous* FTP.

So whenever I add a new entry to the Site Manager (which I do quite frequently), I have to change the default "Servertype" from FTP to something else (two clicks), the "Logontype" from "Anonymous" to "Normal" (two more clicks), and the User from "anonymous" to my username (which is the same on most servers I log into).

One great enhancement would be if the "Anonymous" option simply disappeared from the Logontype choices when SFTP is chosen for the Servertype. It really makes no sense when using the SFTP protocol, right?

But the feature I'd really love to see would be a "New Site Defaults" section in Settings (or even some kind of special "default site" in the site manager from which new sites would inherit their default attributes) to allow users to preset their most commonly used values for new sites.

For those of us who use their S/FTP client all day long, this would be a great time saver, instead of having to repeat the tedious chore of un-setting the same old default options, that you never use, every time.

One last, simple yet incredibly helpful, feature (from FTP Voyager) when adding sites to the Site Manager is to have the initial host value be a copy of the connection name by default. So as you type the new site name (in the left tree view), you are also populating the host field (on the right).

Why? Think about it: When you press the "New Site" button, you must immediately type the name of the new site. Many people (ME! and, admit it: you too!) simply use the host name (or a short form of it) for the site name. So routinely creating, saving, and connecting to a new site would then be as simple as pressing New Site, typing its host name and pressing enter (if my defaults RFE above were implemented).

Obviously I am a keyboard guy. I have a hot-key setup in windows that launches FZ. In case you haven't detected the pattern here, I also just voted on the RFE to add a Settings/Interface option that causes the Site Manager to open upon FZ startup.

CTRL-ALT-F Alt-N hostname.com <enter><enter>

That would be great.

The ability to throttle speed in accordance to the time. Does not require a "planning" ability, but merely recognition of time and the corresponding speed associated with that time. Should probably have a setting for each half hour double example shown below. e.g. 1 50kb/s 2 50kb/s 3 50kb/s 4 50kb/s .. 23 500kb/s 24(h) 500kb/s

time = 23:33 therefore max speed allowance = 500kb/s

Such a simple, crucial, yet absent feature.

In the folder browser there is the entry "Desktop". When I select it FileZilla switches to its real location (e.g. C:\Programs\Documents and Setting\Username\Desktop). Like in other programs I'd like to have this changed so that the folder browser doesn't get expanded until the real location, because in my opinion the actual behavior is unhandy.

This bug report is (in some way) based on tickets submitted before, e.g.: #1345, #2929, #3742, #3746

If I get these and especialy the responses to them right, the additional code to limit a function which would otherwise just work as expected (i.e. offline editing with a configurable editor) is there, because the "edit" function is only implemented for "automatic transfer". But this in turn isn't automatic (and thus broken to quite some users) as has been reported and confirmed several times, e.g.: #1406, #2765, #2899, #2914, #2992

Furthermore altering "open" (and "double click on files") to make it an alternative to "edit" is refused because Filezilla shall not be a file management tool.

On top of that the non-automatic "automatic upload" meanwhile can be disabled as it's behaviour did irritate several users who instead decided not to make use of it at all. Thus we now have an "edit" function for something which doesn't (fully) work in practice and an "open" function which is useless to most of us.

But if Filezille must not be a file management tool then why is Filezilla insisting on displaying a listing of local files at all? It's even not possible to turn that off.

Either proper file management should be implemented/allowed, or the fractional (or should I say bugged?) file lisitng thingy should be removed completely. Because in the current form it is confusing at best an leads to data corruption or even data loss at worst. Additionally this step would release space on the screen (which could be used by a proper file management tool instead).

Or in short: Filezilla should concentrate on it's job: FTP. It should leave the task of file management to the programs which are good at this "e.g. Explorer, Konqueror, Nautilus or Finder" (codesquid in response to Ticket #2929).

(Filezilla V3.2.0)

As I understand it most FTPS connections do no encrypt the data channel. It would be helpful if the client displayed a partially locked icon when only the command channel is encrypted and the data channel is not.

Ideally, the encryption details would also specify whether or not the command and data channels are encrypted in all cases.

A per-site preference as to whether an encrypted data channel is required would also be helpful.

Within the Advanced tab of each Site Profile, provide an option to select a named "filter set". This should appear exactly like the Filter Set dropdown within the filter dialog, but should apply to a site immediately when switching to that site profile.

It becomes necessary for those of us that manage a lot of FTP sites to manually select different Filter Sets when switching to specific sites each time anyway, this would ensure that the correct filter set was applied automatically without having to remember to do so each time.

Standard Windows file listing options allow you to view a pane of file listings in one of the following formats: View: Large Icons, Small Icons, List or Details. The default in Filezilla appears to be "Details", which is not optimal for my personal usage habits. I prefer "List" view. My directories have lots of files and I only need to be able to see file names and nothing else. Normally in Windows, a "View: List" will result in multiple wrapping columns instead of a single column, and where you can then view dozens and dozens of file names in a single pane without scrolling. Makes it easy to locate and select specific/multiple files by name in a single glance.

This is an idea developed in the forums (before i found out about you using trac, so my apologies for cross-posting): ​http://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4721&p=37693#p37693

From the link:

My idea would be to integrate default options parsing (now in COptions::LoadGlobalDefaultOptions) into COptions::CreateSettingsXmlElement (and probably rename it) so that default values are not determined by the source but by fzdefaults first. For this to work the options array needs to loose the const qualifier, unfortunatly. The idea here is that t_option.defaultValue gets set from fzdefaults.xml and iff there's no value in fzdefaults.xml then the hardwired defaults take over.

This will probably obsolete the default_options array and associated functions.

Some thought needs to go into saving this options to the configs. Basically i would propose not to create xml nodes for settings set via fzdefaults.xml or just not copy default settings into users setting at all (seems a bit drastic and probably involves more code changes). This way GetXmlValue() calls for values set in fzdefaults will result in a error if the user runs a stock configuration and the default values set in the options array will take over.

I can see concerns about how this will affect expected use of user defined options. But as outlined, the precedence will be like: "filezilla.xml" => "fzdefaults.xml" => "code defaults" so that from a user perspective his config still trumps the admin config.

Maybe there could be a new option to control whether global options take precedence over user options, with it defaulting to "no" to achieve the previous behaviour. But this change is (probably too) invasive.

Benefit: corp admins will love this (i'm in a need to get this behaviour)

If it's needed, i can probably come up with a patch to make this work.

Apologies if the report is not that clear on how i would implement this, but the basic request is: make *all* config options stack like this in order of precedence: filezilla.xml, fzdefaults.xml, code

When i download files from my web host to my computer to syncronise and if in between i plan to stop or skip one file which is been downloaded due to heavy file size or other reasons (by clicking on "Remove Selected" in "Queued Files" then file stop and filezilla move to next file to download, but it does not delete the old and incomplete file.

Remove Selected command should stop and DELETE the file been downloaded.

When making a new connection from a list of previous connections it would be cool if fields Host, Username, Password and Port would populate with data of that previous connection

It would be nice if the quick connect menu would update when you connected to a server in it.

So if I had a @ b.x c @ d.x e @ f.x

and connected to c @ d.x the list should update to be c @ d.x a @ b.x e @ f.x

otherwise frequently used FTP servers can still be pushed off of quick connect over time when you connect to other servers.

This behaviour would be similar to that of several other FTP clients, such as FlashFXP.

This could be an optional behaviour.

FireFTP is great piece of software but sometimes i can't finish all downloads from one or more servers so it would be nice to have the feature of finishing all active transfers for all or only one specified server and keep the rest in the queue (but inactive until next activation) This would help avoiding transfers that can't be finished in a session.

Thank you very much for this great software!

shortly doubleclick actions have been expanded with "view/edit".

filezilla2 had the option to chose "open". this used the default program, set in file options in windows. my windows file settings made a .htm file open in notepad.

this way i was able to:

• doubleclick to edit the file
• hit return to upload it

this was so easy

Im having an issue with Timeout's in SFTP (and have been since 3.0)

Basicly if the server connection expires/timeout's filezilla dosent know. so if i ls it works, then ls in over a minite it dosent. see log:

Status: Directory listing successful one min later... Status: Retrieving directory listing... Command: ls Error: Network error: Software caused connection abort Error: Failed to retrieve directory listing

I can get around this by going to "Server->Cancel current operation", "Server->Disconnect", "Server->Connect" then retrying my command :)

This is a bit of a hassle though, so if could be fixed in a later release that would be great!

Thanks,

Complistic.

I know there are probably lots of other features requested but this feature would make FZ stand out more.

The goal is to keep a folder on a server and the folder on my client machine in sync, in so far as to download new content that shows up. I want the client machine running FZ to 'regularly' poll the server and compare the files on the server with those of the local machine. (The polling time ideally can be set in local preferences.)

When a new file is added FZ should start downloading. The mechanism for detecting what is new could be to compare the folders contents by filename, size and possibly creation date.

While this is a feature MOST people won't need there is probably a smaller group who can really use this and it would make FileZilla outshine the other clients.

Thanks for considering this.

First, thanks to all the contributors of Filezilla for this great and easy-to use tool.

I have one feature suggestion. Filezilla offers different options to handle the case when a target file already exists. Probably the most commonly used one is to skip the transmission of files if source and target have the same date and/or size. In the recent version, the FTP log pane at the top of the screen shows for each file whether it was downloaded or skipped.

It would be advantageous to display this information also in the "Successful transfers" tab of the bottom pane.

Suggestion how to realize:

• add a column named "Status"
• for each file, display the status; at least "Downloaded" or "Skipped"; or, if data available, even more options e.g. "Overwritten", "New", "Skipped"

Thank you very much in advance for considering this feature request.

For better accessibility to blind people, could you add the Tab and Shift+Tab shortcut to move between elements of FZFtpServer interface's main window (log and connected people list)?

It's hard to explain this feature request in the summary line above. Basically, I think there should be an option in the control panel that will let a user upload files depending on filesize or even filetype for that matter.

Here is an example:

Let's say that you are uploading a big file (over 100mb). You have already begun that upload and you have now decided to upload some images, where each have a filesize less or equal to 1mb. Although you only allow 1 upload at a time, these images should be able to upload at the same time due to the small filesize (or filetype).

I figure in the options, there can be something that says:

Enable Force Upload: _ Force Upload if size less than: _ Mb Force Upload if file of type: jpg/png/mp3

Hopefully this suggestion might be considered.

Thanks again for FileZilla :p

When I develop websites, I usually separate CSS, Javascript and (X)HTML/PHP into different files, located in different folders. Some of the included PHP source files are outside the wwwroot for improved security.

Typical situation (simplified): wwwroot/index.php wwwroot/js/site.js wwwroot/js/other.js wwwroot/css/site.js

some/other/path/includes/functions.php some/other/path/includes/template.php

Very frequently, I'm editing both the .js, .css and maybe the template.php files at the same time - as they are very related to each other. I would make some changes in several of the files mentioned and then upload them to the server, checking the results in a browser, make some adjustments (to several files) and uploading again.

Since the files are not in the same directory, I have to change directory two or three times every time I need to upload the files. The relatively new feature of synchronized browsing took away half of the work, since I only need to change directory on the local machine and the client automatically changes the remote.

I've tried bookmarks, they helped a little, but what I really would like to see is this:

A function that works just like the transfer queue (when you drag files onto it rather than dragging then to the remote site) - the files are queued, but not yet transfered. All the queued files are transferred (from several folders, into their respective remote folder) when you press the "Send queue"-button. But when this is done, they are removed from the transfer queue.

It would work if you add a button that simply "resend last queue". An even better thing would be the possibility of adding several "macro"-buttons with pre-configured files to send. For example; you could make a "Send the index.php, main.js and main.css"-button and ad this button to the toolbar or the bookmark menu.

Thanks for reading through my ticket.

Regards, Erik