dashcode doesnt recognise ftp deployment destination

I have set up an ftp destination to deploy my project on the server. however when i try to deploy, the systems hangs and it looks as though dashcode is trying to deploy the project on my hard disk. I got a friend to try top deploy to the same destination on his mac and it worked. I am running dashcode v3.05 on a macbook pro running osx 10.8.4