Ever since I switched to Mac, I’ve used Cyberduck to ftp files from place to place. It’s free and comes highly recommended just about everywhere.
I hate it.
Don’t like the interface, don’t like the limitations, don’t how transfers are in a separate window, don’t like how slow it runs. Especially hate the way it always crashes when uploading more then ten files at a time. Or encounters an error and has to rescan the folder – which means files in that folder are going to be corrupted so you have to restart the transfer from scratch. The only good thing about this program is the cute rubber ducky icon.

But all the Mac ftp program reviewers walk around with “We heart Cyberduck” t-shirts, and since they all said it was as good or better then the other paid ftp options, I stuck with it. Then comes today, when I’m transferring a site to another host for work and Cyberduck crashes four times while downloading the current files.
I’m tired, probably sick, and am more then willing to shell out some money for a program that doesn’t make my headache worse.

This is how I discovered the beautiful FileZilla. It’s free, and the interface (while not pretty) is very practical and easy to use. Better yet, I had 7876 successful transfers and it didn’t crash once. Amazing. I’m in heaven.

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