Fetch Softworks

FileZilla with Fetch (4 posts)

• Started 19 years ago by adam
• Latest reply 19 years ago from Jim Matthews

• adam Member

  Hi Jim - I'm wondering whether you know of a problem with downloads where the server is running FileZilla.

  For starters FileZilla doesn't seem to recognise the MACB command (I'm not sure how/whether I should/would turn this off) - would this in itself cause a dead end?

  I'm wondering whether failures in downloading & CWD are down to the layout of attributes which I've seen mentioned in another thread. From reading that I was led to believe it caused an incorrectly parsed file list to be shown but since there was no mention of the transfers themselves not working I guessed that wasn't the issue.

  However I see Fetch trying to use the whole lot - eg:

  RETR -xw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 123456 Jan 01 12:34 1-01 Filename.ext

  ...which, of course, fails - yet it seems fine in DOS and Windows - just not on the Mac.

  Is there any way Fetch can parse this format? I'd hate to have to switch to a different FTP client and I don't have a choice over what is available to me on the server.

  Many thanks for any tips

  Adam

  Posted 19 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  The problem is a bug in FileZilla (it uses a "w" in the permissions where it wants to use an "r") that trips up Fetch's parsing. We reported the problem to the FIleZilla people a while ago, and have implemented a workaround for the next Fetch release. I would check to see whether there's a new FileZilla version that fixes this bug. If not you can refresh the file list a few times and eventually Fetch should start showing you just the file list (but without sizes and dates).

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 19 years ago #

• adam Member

  Well - at least I know I'm not going mad!

  Is there any estimated release date for the next version of Fetch? (even a minor revision to do address this parsing issue?).. unfortunately, as I mentioned, there is little chance of me being able to get the hosting company to change their setup and I imagine a number of users will find themselves in a similar position.

  Many thanks for your reply and help with this

  Adam

  Posted 19 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Unfortunately that change is part of a major update, and we don't have an announced release date. If refreshing the file list doesn't do the trick please send a note to bugs at fetchsoftworks.com and mention FileZilla and what version of Mac OS you are running.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 19 years ago #