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Product summary
The good: Love-it-or-hate-it interface; contains advanced features, such as folder synchronization and a task scheduler.
The bad: Love-it-or-hate-it interface; SSL encryption and phone support cost extra; tough learning curve for beginners.
The bottom line: If you're open-minded and want a great deal of power and flexibility in the interface, give this a try. Otherwise, WS FTP Pro is a safer bet.
CNET editors' review
- Reviewed on: 06/05/2002
Launch the program, and the Site Profile Manager offers a familiar, folder-based interface for storing bookmarks to frequently used FTP sites. It also serves up dozens of anonymous FTP sites to choose from, a nice feature that most FTP clients offer.
There's a method to its interface madness
Like many applications, FTP Voyager uses a Windows Explorer-style design to manage files, with folders displayed in the left pane and individual files on the right. However, FTP Voyager displays two complete Explorer interfaces, one on top for the remote directories and one below for the local ones. So, to upload a certain file to a specific folder on the remote server, you must drag the file from the bottom-right pane to the top-left window. Though counterintuitive at first, this interface offers a great deal of power and flexibility once mastered. For instance, you can quickly and easily compare the directory and file structure of your remote server and local disks and easily copy a file to a specific folder without having to drill down through the directory structure.
In addition to this funky, cool interface, FTP Voyager's scheduling capabilities are impressive. From the toolbar, Scheduler creates a specific task to perform at a designated time. For instance, you can schedule Voyager to download a Web log file to your hard drive every day, then delete the file from the server. Or you can use FTP Voyager's synchronization feature to back up a directory to an FTP server every night. Voyager's menu-based interface makes it relatively simple to create these scheduled tasks, though novices may find it a bit difficult to use, since there's no wizard to help assign tasks.
In our speed tests, except for our tests of uploading and downloading many small files, FTP Voyager performed on a par with the competition. However, in our test results with the numerous small files, WS FTP Pro bested its competitors in half the time. Continue reading
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