FTP Alias New Feature?

[ubrgeek]

I love the FTP Alias feature - it's yet another example of what makes this app rock. One question/request - Is there a way to make Yummy quit (or even better, not open the entire app) after a transfer? Right now, you need to manually quit when the transfer is done.

[JD]

Glad you are loving Yummy FTP! Thanks

If Yummy gets launched as a result of an FTP Alias being used, Yummy should automatically quit after the transfer is complete. There are two exceptions: If Yummy was already running it will not quit. Similarly, if Yummy was launched as a result of an FTP Alias being used but other tasks were performed afterwards, such as opening another connection manually, then Yummy will not quit.

You have the option to create both Standard and Secure FTP Aliases. The newer variant, Secure FTP Alias, contains a mini version of Yummy FTP itself but capable only of uploading, and as such it works independently of Yummy FTP so it doesn't have to be launched at all. Additionally, the Secure FTP Alias can be copied to other computers and used used without Yummy FTP installed. The name "secure" comes from the fact that the connection details embedded in them cannot be read or edited once created, even by you, so it's safe to distribute around.

[ubrgeek]

Son of a gun. Don't know what I did wrong, but I'm guessing I didn't choose the "secure" option. Works like a dang charm! 

BTW, today's Maczot is offering FileChute. I put in some comments about concerns over security, functionality and frankly the fact that it doesn't seem to always work. Of course, I put in a pimp for Yummy (but for the sake of accuracy, mentioned a couple of other products, too.)

[JD]

Thanks for the support

[JD]

Definite bug here! It's a secure ftp alias, doing standard ftp. The b9 made one takes about 10 seconds to show it's progress window and start connecting. The prior one takes less than 2 seconds to get to the same point. I was testing with half a dozen 4-800k image files. That same prior one transferred all the files and quit before the new one even showed the progress dialog!

Actual transfer speeds seemed to be roughly the same.

Found it! This will be fixed in the next beta release.

For what it's worth, this was caused by the FTP Alias looking for the default diff tool application, which it shouldn't need to do at all to begin with, but in paulc's case he didn't have any of the default diff tools installed so it took a long time to look for them all. In the next build, FTP Alias won't look for a default diff tool, so the problem will go away.

[paulc]

I love it when I'm found to NOT be hallucinating!

Thanks JD... for being tenacious!

Curious, was diff tool calls for debugging?

[JD]

You're welcome! And thanks to you for reporting it ... otherwise it might not have been noticed/fixed.

One of Yummy's latest features is to allow you to show the differences between two files (local and remote) which it achieves using a diff tool of your choice (eg Araxis Merge, FileMerge, BBEdit, Changes, etc). When no preference has been set, Yummy tries to find one of the standard apps on your Mac in order to provide a default. In your case you had not set a preference and so each time the FTP Alias was started it was looking for one of the above apps, causing the delay you saw. Obviously this is totally unnecessary for an FTP Alias so it has been removed.

[paulc]

Ah, thanks for the explanation JD!