| Reviewer: Anthony Toste |
Date: 2008-06-24, 07:36 GMT
Version: SmartFTP 3.0.1018.1
Overall rating:   (Fair)
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| GUI:   Features: Ease of use: Value: |  | Bye, Bye SmartFTP not free version any more
Which is real sad to say I used it for min years I think date back to 1998 when it wasn't even ver 1.0 where I switch from WS_FTP v6 to SmartFTP becuase I like it better to bad it not free version any more.
What I don't like in v3 is that dran the Transfer Queue Thing which v2.5 did not do and no mb some of the other ftp client I look at don't have this kind of junk so for now I end up going back my old register ver WS_FTP v6 and manuel had re-enter-in all my ftp site a pain but I'm just about got it done in tell I have time to do full comparison of other Free FTP client.
SmartFTP still has problem download big which alway restart Transfer Queue even know it down the file but always ends up restart to 0 download the same file over and over. |
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| | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | | Not freeware anyway!! |
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| | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | | Ive never seen a software have so many damn updates! |
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| | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | | Another update...more improvements I'll never see :). |
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| | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | For the long time LeechFTP user upset with the final state of the program (the few bugs every so often, and the failure of LeechFTP to disconnect completed downloads/uploads properly, and the log also saying that files that have been downloaded are corrupt) look no furhter. SmartFTP to the rescue.
Well not really...but its the best client out there for the LeechFTP faithful desiring to have a new client.
Sure theres bitbeamer, but bitbeamer is already dead for someodd reason. And you cant buy it anymore from what i see... sure you can crack it, but i never liked the program to begin with. Hell, you even need to download this small exe file to fix the uninstall in bitbeamer. By default, bit beamer comes with an uninstall.log, but no exe to uninstall, let alone no entry in add/remove programs. Just search google for BitBeamer uninstall fix. I downloaded it off some Japanese site or something.
Anyway, back to SmartFTP.
It says Trial...and buy...but you dont HAVE to buy it...lol...running it in trial mode (which seems to have no time bomb or such) removes no features.
There are only a few slight differences between LeechFTP and SmartFTP. Obviously the queue pane is not on the let like you would be used to...and sure the local browser and the remote browser have the tree view, but they arent hard to get used to.
But the best part of SmartFTP when compared to LeechFTP, and then compared to all the other FTP's out there, is the threads...LeechFTP was revolutionary in allowing more than one connection...SmartFTP implements this very well. So for all you thread junkies, look no further.
It has a great XP look and feel.
I would just wish they would implement more right click menus since they already implement Windows Explorer enough in the Local and Remote browsers (e.g. a right click window to allow you to choose which column headers to show...size, image size, duration, etc...the standard ones that come with windows exploere :)).
The options are great...there are a lot of them and its wonderful.
The program loads fast...and the interface, outside of the differences from LeechFTP) is great when compared to FTP clients like FlashFXP, CuteFTP, WSFTP, BitBeamer, DeluxeFTP, etc. etc. etc.
Its a great program, and its something that LeechFTP users should look into using...
Hell, they even have a forum set up for suggestions and support!...
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