FTP that works with Catalina?!

I think the discussions around FTP is mainly due to Catalina disrupting access to NAS storage and people are trying to find alternative access methods to their NAS stored data. There are other threads about SMB not working after a Catalina upgrade, which is what happened to me.

FWIW - I went the direction of changing my NAS H/W. I was attaching USB HDDs to my router/modem, which now fails to allow connections from my iMac. I bought a Raspberry Pi4 and attached my USB HDDs to it and all works fine again.

So far, of the dual pane FTP clients, the only one that works well for me on my particular servers is FileZilla, even though it is rather clunky looking. I ended up running into problems with all the other ones. FIleZilla is also the fastest it seems.

It is definitely gone as the developer died in August 2018...

FileZilla is also a good soft working on Catalina well.

Late to the party, but there is a beta of Fetch (5.8b10) that works with Catalina. If you go to the fetchsoftworks message boards, most of the threads will have one (or more) links to the instructions on how to download it.

So far, I have seen nothing that would convince me this is "beta quality" software. Then again, I don't use FTP very much, but when I do, Fetch has always been my go to choice.

The version on the app store isn't Catalina compatible, although I'm sure that once it's out of beta, that will change.

I just asked for a link that someone knows is safe. If you can vouch for it then thats fine by me. Nags and ads don't sound good though.

I would never install an app from the web on my phone, and I prefer to use App Store for Mac too,

I still maintain that if these small time developers charged less than $5 they will sell more in revenue terms than if they charged more than $10. Etrecheck paid-for version for example.

2 interesting links in relation to this thread

• https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Comparison_of_FTP_client_software
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rblQ4y9coGg

I'm installing PuTTY now. I've used this in the past in Linux/Unix systems and I've found it very handy.

@etresoft - PuTTY? - Well, yes.... but I thought it did sftp/scp. I haven't used it in years though. Maybe it was an older version? Or perhaps I misremembered? I've installed it, and indeed it's only useful for SSH as a terminal window.

I've just discovered another reason to use FTP/SFTP on a Mac. When copying files from a Mac formatted disk to NAS storage, which will almost certainly be NTFS, or similar, formatted disk results in these Mac source fork files, ._*. You can clean these from the Mac with the dot_clean command, but using an FTP/SFTP client can prevent these files being created.

FileZilla supports: FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)

At the Fetch site the developer has a nice, long history of the app and he does go out of his way to say he doesn't expect to do more development on it.

I forgot to mention. This method installs FileZilla as a user app, not a system-wide app.

The developer of Yummy has died.

You didn't ignore the "32 bit thing"

you said

"Cyberduck works great in both 32 and 64 bit."

which was incorrect. Dress it up how you wish.

Harry Nilsson was right