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HairyPotter

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4 Suggestions
« on: August 31, 2007, 04:34:33 PM »
I have a couple of suggestions, my wishlist, for YummyFTP...  ::)

1) Remember Target Destination  functionality - suppose you have a directory or file(s) you always upload to one or to more servers. Then, you could mark those items with this "remember target destination" function, and Yummy would remember to where you have uploaded them. So, the next time you change one of those items you just select the item you want to transfer, go to menu TRANSFER and click on an "UPLOAD TO SAVED LOCATIONS" (or something like that) and the selected item(s) would be uploaded to the same place you've uploaded them last time.

2) extending this functionality, a function called UPLOAD TO LAST LOCATION could be created, allowing one to upload item(s) to the same server/directory he have just used.

3) when the question is transferring a large number of files, every FTP program I used in my life (except those running on terminal) suffer from the same syndrome: they all built a list of all files to transfer before starting transferring. This approach makes the program stall, before all the list is created and the transfer begins. Why not to use the approach of the FTP that do not uses graphic shell? Just start copying the files from the current directory and while the files are being transfer ed, another task in parallel could be started and build the list in background.

4) provide a stop button that cancels all transfer, despite the number of files in the queue. Have you ever tried to stop Yummy when there is a large number of directories and files on the Queue??? You have to do 1432 clicks, before it stops.  ;D

I hope Santa brings me this gifts...  ::)



JD

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Re: 4 Suggestions
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2007, 05:11:51 PM »
1 & 2 are nice ideas, thanks :)

The recursive batch transfer capability I introduced in version 1.6 is quite close to your idea 3. I'll see about extending it as you described.

For request 4, sorry about that  ;D
Perhaps I should enable the X button in the Queue drawer when nothing is selected, then if you clicked it all the queue entries would be cancelled. At the moment, you can click in the list, choose 'Select All' from the Edit menu (or use the keyboard shortcut Command-A) then click the X button.

HairyPotter

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Re: 4 Suggestions
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2007, 04:06:24 AM »
Ahhhhh... thanks for a solution for #4 ...  8)

another two last minute ideas... (I am a sea of ideas today...)

1) a MOVE function... that would be great (deleting the file after copying it to ANOTHER machine). I put the word ANOTHER uppercase because Yummy already has a move function, to move files to other directories on the SAME machine...

2) if you have GROWL installed, any error generated by Yummy will show on an alert window too. In other words: you receive two alerts, one thru growl and one in that alert window. The worst part is that you will be forced to click on that window, losing time. So, I suggest a preference option to disable the alert windows for such messages that are already shown thru growl...

I hope Yummy continues to evolve more and more. That's great, because the only FTP client Yummy can beat is itself, because Yummy is simply the best FTP client I ever used... and look that I use computers (Mac, Windoze, Linux, Unix...) since they were powered with coal.  :o
« Last Edit: September 01, 2007, 04:19:39 AM by HairyPotter »

JD

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Re: 4 Suggestions
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2007, 04:19:39 AM »
You can already copy to another server (just open another browser and drag and drop between them) so I guess it could be quite easy to delete the original files afterwards.

Thank you for your kind comments! I'll keep working at it :)