WS_FTP Features

The basic features of WS_FTP allow you to:

  • Connect your PC to a remote FTP site
  • Browse files and folders on both the FTP site and your PC
  • Copy and move files between your PC and an FTP site
  • Save and organize connection parameters for your favorite FTP sites
  • Resume interrupted file transfers
  • Automatically retry failed transfers
  • Browse remote and local sites with thumbnail view
  • Auto-connect to remote sites on application start-up
  • Display local and remote image files as thumbnails.
  • Find local files and folders that meet certain criteria using the WS_FTP local search utilities

The following advanced features are available in WS_FTP Professional:

  • Make a secure connection (with SSL or SSH) so that all data is encrypted as it is transferred
  • Copy files from one FTP site to another
  • Track and save the folder paths you visit for quick access another time (via workspaces)
  • Perform multiple file transfers using the WS_FTP Transfer Manager
  • Transfer a single file in multiple parts
  • Append a file to another file on the other system (Professional version)
  • Schedule large files for download at a later, non-peak time or schedule regular transfers with the WS_FTP Scheduler Utility
  • Find remote files and folders that meet certain criteria using the WS_FTP remote search utilities
  • Synchronize directory structures between your PC and an FTP site using the WS_FTP Synchronize Utility
  • Synchronize two remote sites
  • Back up files between your file directories and FTP sites
  • Validate that transferred files have not been compromised between the source and destination sites
  • Integrate WS_FTP with your browser for faster downloading of files from the Web
  • Encrypt files during transfer, and in storage using OpenPGP
  • Perform actions (delete, rename, move) on files when the transfer is completed