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Transmit 3 - Powerful file transfer app
Authored by: simbalala on Dec 28, '05 05:13:51PM

I own Interarchy and have for a long time, it's great, I'll keep it and continue to upgrade it. But I played with Transmit for 30 minutes then bought the license.

The deal maker for me was the WebDAV support, my servers support it. Combine that with BBEdit editing and it's killer. I've edited using the native Mac WebDAV support and it's slow on saves, much slower than saving using BBEdit's native "FTP editing". Transmit saves nearly instantly.

It also has the advantage of not creating all the temp files which BBEdit creates when you edit via FTP. Those temp files make the modified date and time BBEdit display in its info area kind of useless and clutter up my local machine appearing in trash later to be scanned. The path info displayed in the info area is also useless, it's the path to the temp file.

I opened a remote 2.4MB MySQL backup with BBEdit via Transmit in eight seconds (3 Mbps DSL) and it didn't have to create a 2.4MB temp file on my local machine. I edited one line and saved, the Save was instantaneous.

Simple transfers are very, very fast too, I even tried the server to server transfer, something you can't do with Interarchy. It moved a 1.3MB zip file from one server to the other in a few seconds (via WebDAV). I don't think I can upload that same file to a server via Interarchy ftp in less time.

I've read that WebDAV should be faster than FTP but my experience using the native WebDAV support was to the contrary till now. I imagine that BBEdit and Interarchy will support WebDAV in future versions but this is now.



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