Yummy FTP provides many methods of file/folder transfer. The most commonly used are from within the FTP Browser window, via FTP Aliases and also URLs from other applications such as a web browser.

An FTP Browser window will only be displayed once a successful connection has been established with a Server.

By default, FTP Browser windows show the files and folders on your Mac on the left and the Server files and folders on the right. The Mac browser can be completely hidden, if preferred, by dragging the divider between the two browsers all the way to the left.

To transfer items between your Mac and the Server, or vice versa, simply select the items and then drag them to the required location, just as you would in the Finder. You may also drag and drop between the Finder and Yummy FTP, which is necessary if the Mac browser is hidden. Alternatively, you can use the Toolbar upload/download icon or the Upload/Download option in the Transfer menu to transfer whatever is currently selected to the opposite browser.

Since the FTP Browsers are designed to behave almost identically to the Finder, all the usual functionality is supported:

• Items can be moved around within the same browser by selecting the items to be moved, then drag and dropping them to the required folder.
• Items can be renamed by clicking in their displayed name and editing the text.
• Items can be deleted by dragging them to the Trash icon within your Dock or the convenient Trash icon in the FTP Browser window itself, if configured to show.
• Lists can be sorted by any of the displayed types (Name, Date, Size, Kind, etc) by simply clicking in the required column header.
• List columns can be resized by clicking at their extreme right and dragging the mouse.
• List columns can be rearranged by clicking on their column headers and dragging them with the mouse.

Yummy FTP also supports Column view which again works in a similar manner to the Finder.

Yummy FTP supports transferring files/folders between two different servers. To do this you must have an FTP Browser window open for each of the servers. Simply drag and drop the items to be transferred from the sender server’s FTP Browser window to the destination server’s FTP Browser window.

Currently Yummy FTP does not support FXP (File eXchange Protocol) for these operations, although there are plans to include this in a later version. Instead, the items are downloaded to your Mac and then uploaded to the destination server.

To select a number of transfers to be executed at a later time, simply select the required items in the FTP Browser window and drag them to the Queue drawer. Alternatively, you may select the Download Later or Upload Later menu options - the items will still appear in the Queue drawer.

To show the Queue drawer, select ‘Show Queue Drawer’ from the ‘View’ menu, or click the Down-Arrow button at the bottom of the FTP Browser window.

To start the transfers, select them in the Queue drawer list and then press the Right-Arrow button in the Queue drawer window. The transfers can be cancelled by pressing the Close button.

To schedule waiting transfers to take place at a later time, and/or repeat the transfers periodically, select the required items and then press the Clock button.

An FTP Alias works like any other alias to a folder in the Finder would. The difference is that the folder represented is that of an FTP Server directory. Double clicking an FTP Alias will display the contents of the Server directory. Dragging and dropping files/folders from the Finder or other applications onto an FTP Alias will copy them to the Server directory.

To create an FTP Alias you must have a connection established with the desired Server and an FTP Browser window displayed for it.

Navigate to the desired Server directory in the FTP Browser, and then select Save as FTP Alias from the File menu, or select the same option from the contextual menu.

Note that if a folder item is selected in the Server directory, the FTP Alias will represent contents of that directory and not that of the directory currently listed.

Special Note: FTP Aliases will inherit whatever connection settings have been applied to the FTP Browser and Bookmark, if any. For example, if Binary transfers are selected rather than Automatic then this will be set in the FTP Alias also. Since a warning will be displayed, by default, if a file to be uploaded already exists on the server, you may prefer to set the Always Replace Files option in the Mode menu prior to creating the FTP Alias.

You may create an FTP Alias at any location on your Mac, but the Desktop is the most useful place.

An FTP Alias can be edited by selecting Edit when no Bookmarks are selected in the Bookmarks Viewer window. A navigation window will be displayed in order to allow you to select the FTP Alias file.

FTP Aliases can be copied to another Mac, so long as Yummy FTP is installed there too.

An FTP Watcher is equivalent to a Finder Folder Action for FTP uploads. When an FTP Watcher is placed in a folder on your Mac and double clicked, it monitors the folder for new files and/or folders being added to it. As soon as new items appear they are automatically uploaded to a pre-defined Server and destination directory of your choice.

To create an FTP Watcher you must have a connection established with the desired Server and an FTP Browser window displayed for it.

Navigate to the desired Server directory in the FTP Browser, and then select Save as FTP Watcher from the File menu, or select the same option from the contextual menu.

Note that if a folder item is selected in the Server directory, the FTP Watcher will upload to that directory and not that of the directory currently listed.

Special note: FTP Watchers will inherit whatever connection settings have been applied to the FTP Browser and Bookmark, if any. For example, if Binary transfers are selected rather than Automatic then this will be set in the FTP Watcher also. Since a warning will be displayed, by default, if a file to be uploaded already exists on the server, we recommend setting the ‘Always Replace Files’ option in the ‘Mode’ menu prior to creating the FTP Watcher.

Once selected, an icon as displayed above, will be created in the location of your choice.

You must ensure that FTP Watcher is located in the same folder as the files/folder that will be put there to be uploaded, otherwise a lot of unwanted items could be uploaded by mistake.

Double click the FTP Watcher icon to start it.

As items appear in the ‘watched’ folder, the FTP Watcher will see them and start to upload them.

Whilst items are transferred, they are temporarily stored within a Processing folder, which resides within a folder named as the current date and time. When the uploading is complete, the items are moved from the Processing folder into the date and time folder, and the Processing folder is deleted. All these folders reside within a folder named Yummy FTP Watcher History that the FTP Watcher creates when it is started for the first time. The Yummy FTP Watcher History folder therefore provides a useful resource for auditing purposes.

To stop FTP Watchers, select the Stop All FTP Watchers option in the Transfer menu of Yummy FTP.

An FTP Watcher can be edited by selecting Edit when no Bookmarks are selected in the Bookmarks Viewer window. A navigation window will be displayed in order to allow you to select the FTP Watcher file.

FTP Watchers can be copied to another Mac, so long as Yummy FTP is installed there too.

ftp://username:password@ftp.Servername.com:21/initial path

A URL (a standard to represent a location, folder or file on the Internet, such as above) can be processed by Yummy FTP. This can be especially useful when FTP link URLs are specified on web sites or emails.

By pasting the URL onto the New Connection window, the fields in the window will be filled with the contents of the URL. Pressing Connect will then process the URL and either display the Server directory or download the Server file, as described by the URL.