Of course I did! But that's ok... you can pay me later 

I'll get some swiss chocolate for you.

Seriously though, are you not already a beta tester?? If not, I'll add your name to the list, if that's ok.

Absolutely. Last time, I decided against it because I didn't have enough time to take a deeper look. Things look brighter now.

Thanks! I hope you didn't sacrifice the remaining weekend hours just because I don't like to edit one file at a time.

If I can help by testing the new version, I'll gladly do that.

Come on, it's weekend! It bad enough that I have to work!

I recently discovered some problems when editing several files with the same name in the external editor.
My folder structure on the ftp server is like this:

index.html
company
  |-- index.html
services
  |-- index.html

Not to unusual for a website.

Problem #1
I was editing index.html and company/index.html at the same time, and made changes to both files. After saving both, index.html had the contents of company/index.html, and the latter wasn't uploaded at all. TextWrangler didn't show an error, so I assume they were correctly saved locally, but not uploaded.

Problem #2
Probably related is an error I get occasionally when trying to edit two files of the same name quickly (doubleclick on the first, doubleclick on the second before the first has oppened in the editor). YummyFTP then states that this file is already beeing edited.

Problem #3
I rarely get the error message in YummyFTP that a file can not be edited, because I seem to lack permissions to write to the "Edits" folder. This also occured only when editing several files with the same name and doing that fast.

All these problems could probably be solved by replicating the folder structure of the server to the "Edits" folder, but that's just a guess...

PS: Using YummyFTP 1.5.1 on an iMac Core Duo that is.

After testing the Universal Binary beta for more than a month, I still haven't found any new bugs. Heck, I couldn't even find the old ones.

Way to go!

I'm sure you knew that sooner or later somebody would ask.

I'm happily typing this on my new iMac Intel Core Duo and of course I had to give YummyFTP a try. It works nicely under Rosetta; no problems at all. Still, a native version would definitely rock. If you've got a universal beta that needs to be tested, I'll gladly do that.

Best Regards,

Andreas

Is Cmd-E not useful for you in this situation?

It's faster to switch from Shift-Arrow Down to Cmd-Arrow Down than from Shift-Arrow Down to Cmd-E. But in the end, I certainly can get used to it.
Damn Finder.

Funny, I just realized that this Cmd-Down Arrow thing I was talking about isn't really about folders but about files. I use this a lot, but wasn't aware of it.
For example: I select a few files with Shift-Down Arrow and would like to edit them with Cmd-Down Arrow (or do whatever a doubleclick on the selected files would do). Is that possible?

Looking forward to the enhanced aliases.

I agree, multiple windows for the same server are no good. Mimicing the Right Arrow behaviour would work, I guess, but it would be a bit strange that Cmd-Down Arrow would fire different actions, depending on the number of files selected.
Seems like there's no perfect solution for that one. All considered, I'd go with the multiple windows. Should you decide to go that way, it would be very cool if Cmd-Doubleclick would do the same for single selected folders also. And doubleclicking multiple selected folders too, of course.

While I'm on it, I think paulc made a very good point about the Aliases, and it made me ask if it would be possible to add the possibility to create standalone "Droplets" that don't require YummyFTP itself. That would be very handy for the not so computer-savvy customers of mine. I could create a Droplet, send it to them (as long as they're running an OS X version that would be supported by YummyFTP), and they'd just drop their 100MB file on it and watch the progress bar. No browser and fancy stuff.

In Yummy FTP, Cmd-Down Arrow is the shortcut for 'Enter Into Directory' and is supposed to display within the same browser window.

I got confused by the fact that Cmd-Arrow Down opens the selected directory but doesn't if multiple directories are selected. But I see the problem - you can't just open multiple windows like the finder. I'd suggest just opening the last folder selected.
The Cmd-Right Arrow thing is stuck in my mind for an unknown reason, but as you said, using Arrow Right works perfectly fine.

Thanks a lot!

1) Yummy is using "Command-Shift-Q" for showing the Queue Drawer, but that's also a system wide command for logging out the current user.

2) When selecting multiple files in the list view with "Shift-Arrow Down", it's not possible to open them afterwards with "Command-Arrow Down". "Command-Arrow Right" on the other hand does open the selected folders, which is different from what the finder does. Not that the finder is a reference for anything, but consistent systems just rule.

Just tell me if it's starting to get annoying...

It's me again.

1) SSH Tunnelling
Sometimes I've to connect to a server without remotely available ftp ports, so I have to open a ssh tunnel to an available server in that subnet with the terminal, redirecting a local port to the server I want to connect to and finally connect with Yummy to that local port. That works, but, well, it's the terminal. Since MacOSX already has SSH built in, an integration of some more SSH functionality into YummyFTP probably could be done easily. I'd suggest a third form in the bookmark details, possibly similar to the options the SQL client "Navicat" offers.
Maybe I'm a bit off, but as far as I can see SFTP doesn't allow a different server to proxy the SSH connection, right?

2) FXP
In theory a nice thing, but almost nobody knows it and I don't even know a single mac app that supports it. Well, at least no ftp clients (some servers do).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol>

3) Preferences like "System Preferences"
That's just cool IMHO.

4) Folder Resume
When downloading huge folders, some servers might get stuck (or their firewalls hate me or whatever) and the connection is gone. At 90% of some hundred megabytes, I don't want to redownload everything, but I also can't just skip the already downloaded files because that might leave a partial file (which typically tends to be the most important one). So I'm proposing a "Smart Folder Resume" function that skips the complete files and resumes the partial ones. Comparison by filesize would work for me (and checking the file type, of course), as I suppose ftp servers don't provide MD5 hashes or something similar when getting a listing.

The idea is not simply to create a publicity stunt, although heaven knows Yummy FTP could do with some publicity

A good question, since I don't see any FTP client on MacOS X that does what Yummy does, and especially not one that does things that well. In fact, my personal opinion is that YummyFTP is to cheap for what it offers. But then, that's a quite silly thing to say as a customer, isn't it?

Anyway, I'm just not sure if you'd really gain anything by offering a Lite version, considering that you're probably selling X copies of a "Lite" version but lose some 0.3*X sales on the normal one (because people realize that they don't need the whole thing). But especially I'm worried about the general "make it cheaper" mentality that has been making rounds lately...it doesn't help anyone, and I suppose that other vendors would jump that train too, once they see you did.

In the end though, I should probably mind my own business instead telling everyone what I think would be the best thing to do.  I just really REALLY hope that this whole software thing is working out for you, because that also means good software for, well, just about every mac user out there...

About the feature list you mentioned, I think it's great. I've been looking at quite a few free ftp clients, and while some might offer other features, none seems to be as efficient (cpu usage, memory footprint) AND easy to use that I could recommend it unconditionally (yes, I'm probably biased). I definitely think that a YummyFTP Lite with this feature set would be well worth the $10.

I like the idea of a "lite" version. But I don't think it's a big difference if you're spending $10 or $25 if you really need a good FTP client to work with. So...if it's just about publicity, a free version might do a better job. For example, I know a lot of people that don't know much about computers but have to send me one big file. They don't care about permissions, previews or filters; they don't even know what "encoding" is. And they're most likely not spending $25 for a one-time thing.
Of course a free version would have to be VERY stripped down to prevent cannibalizing of sales of the full version. Drop the multiple connections, the auto-reconnects, the remote editing, the Favorites, the History. Heck, maybe even the local view. Just leave the very basic stuff like active and passive connections, Drap&Drop and that kind of stuff. There.

But then, that's only my $0.02...