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Yummy FTP

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Shareware; $25

Current Version: 1.7.1 (April 8, 2008)

From the Yummy FTP web site: "Yummy FTP is an FTP and SFTP client application for the Mac, built as native Mac OS X software from the ground up, with the goal of providing a reliable, powerful, yet easy to use file transfer utility." Yummy FTP touts high transfer speeds as its greatest virtue, but I have not attempted to confirm that it's any faster than the other popular FTP clients for the Mac. However, Yummy FTP has a nice feature set that makes it worth considering, including the following helpful capabilities:

  • Synchronization
  • Remote editing
  • AppleScript support
  • In-client file previews
  • File filtering
  • Desktop-based FTP aliases
  • Scheduling
  • Support for SFTP via public key methods, including (as of version 1.5) support for Mac OS X's built-in SSH configuration capability (as with Transmit). While you can still specify a key for each bookmark within the program itself, this is no longer necessary if you use ssh_config at a system level.

Version 1.7 adds the following new features:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 ready
  • Quick Look integration - list icons and preview windows
  • Leopard-inspired UI update
  • New app icons including 512 version

Version 1.7 updates the following features:

  • Renaming an item now only pre-selects the name, excluding the extension
  • Color labels can now be applied to items within the Bookmarks Viewer

Version 1.7 makes the following bug fixes:

  • Single-clicking in the arrows of the scrollbars in Column view did not work correctly
  • Some Chinese localization corrections
  • Corrected some visual glitches with the alignment of label coloring
  • Fixed a Mirror synchronize processing failure when auto-reconnecting after a connection failure
  • Fixed some visual glitches when renaming in Column view
  • Fixed failure to resolve SFTP hosts via Bonjour
  • Synchronization fixes
  • System log of plist errors corrected
  • On some Macs, the time scheduler entry box was broken - fixed

Version 1.7.1 makes the following additional enhancements and bugfixes:

  • Compare files before Sync - Using the 'diff' tool of your choice (Araxis Merge, Changes, FileMerge, BBEdit or TextWrangler) you can compare synchronization candidates directly from the Sync Preview, allowing you to see what has changed in a file before committing it
  • Copy Web URL - Copy and paste direct links to your web site, instead of FTP ones, using the FTP Browser's intelligent URL creation tool
  • Enhanced Quick Look - Multiple items and folders can now be previewed with a tap of the space bar
  • Enhanced DualBrowse - Taking linked browsing to the next level, DualBrowse now syncs scrolling, sorting, column reordering & resizing and searching too

User Reviews

"I've found Yummy FTP totally solid and reliable. It's straightforward to set up and use. It has synchronization and scheduling, so mirroring/backups can be completely automated. Supports MDTM as an option, so file dates are preserved if you backup to an MDTM-capable server. Great on-line help. Only slight criticism is that Yummy doesn't support SSL; but it does support SSH (SFTP), which is probably preferable anyway."
—TC Hayes

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