CuteFTP Professional Feature Tour: Transfer Options

Transfer Options

Standard Transfers
Scheduled Transfers
Site-to-Site Transfers
Resume Transfers
Queue Transfers
Accelerate Transfers
Simultaneous Transfers
Compressed Transfers
Guaranteed Transfers
Overwrite Rules
Auto-Rename Transfers
Advanced Transfers
Right-Click Shell Integration

Standard Transfers
CuteFTP supports multiple methods for transferring files and folders, including keyboard, mouse, menu, and toolbar. This simplest way to transfer is by drag 'n drop from one pane to another.

Drag & Drop Transfer

Scheduled Transfers
Schedule a file, folder, or queue entry to be transferred at a later date. Specify whether the scheduled event should recur at specific intervals and even choose from certain events to take place once the transfer is completed.

Schedule Transfer Tool


Site-to-Site Transfers
Also known as "FXP," this popular features allows you to transfer files from one remote server to another, bypassing your computer altogether. This results in a decrease in the amount of time necessary complete the transfer.

Site to Site Transfer

Site-to-site transfers are made easy with a simple "drag 'n drop" between remote site panes. While CuteFTP Pro supports this feature, many FTP servers optionally block it due to "port theft" considerations.

 

Resume Transfers
Transfer with confidence, even with slow connections or if you're using a lower performance FTP server. CuteFTP can detect a broken* transfer and automatically resume it where it left off, rather than transfer the whole file over again.

Resume Settings

*Not all sites support this feature. In case of power-outage, you must reboot your PC and run CuteFTP for it to automatically resume. Severe blackouts may corrupt data on disk and therefore prevent CuteFTP from successfully completing the transfer. Mission critical systems should rely on backup power, such as from a UPS.

Queue Transfers
Select files and folders spanning multiple remote sites and queue them for future transfer. CuteFTP's robust queue management system allows you to manage the order (priority) of queue items, track the transfer status of queue items, schedule queue items, and modify a queue item's properties. You can even save a snapshot of the queue and then load and run it in the future.

Queue Pane


Accelerate Transfers
Maximize your file transfer throughput by 300% or more!  Unlike other FTP clients, CuteFTP Pro can split a single download file into multiple parts and later recombine them upon receipt. Combined with GlobalSCAPE Secure FTP Server, it is the only client that can perform multi-part uploads!

Single File Transferred in Multiple Parts

In the sample above, each thread averaged ~220KB/s, for a combined speed of almost 900KB/s.

Standard File Transfer of the Same File

A normal FTP transfer of the same file from the same server only seconds later shows that the normal max speed allowed by the server and/or connection was ~280 KB/s.

Simultaneous Transfers
Connect, browse and navigate multiple sites at the same time. Most FTP clients force you to disconnect from a site when connecting to an alternate one. In CuteFTP Professional, each connection takes place in its own window. Connection windows can be tiled, cascaded or accessed by clicking on the corresponding tab.

Multiple Connections in Tabbed Panes

*Up to 200 simultaneous transfers are allowed on Windows NT/W2K/XP systems. Up to 50 simultaneous transfers are allowed on Win9x systems.

Compressed Transfers
Compress file and folders to .ZIP, .CAB, and Gzip/Tarball archives prior to uploading them, as well as, decompress downloaded archives of the same type.

Selecting a Compressed Transfer


Guaranteed Transfers
Verify the file integrity after a transfer has been completed for mission critical data transfers. This feature relies on a proprietary command supported by GlobalSCAPE's Secure FTP Server.

Log Showing CRC Checks



Overwrite Rules
Programmatically determine whether an existing file being transferred needs to be overwritten, resumed, renamed or skipped based on date, size and other criteria, or choose to be prompted each time a matching file is found.

Connection Settings Page


Auto-Rename Transfers
Set up rules to change a file's name, extension or case during transfer. Specify the source and destination name, including wildcards, and whether or not to change the case of a transferred file.

Auto-rename Settings Page


Advanced Transfers
Configure many more transfer options in CuteFTP, including transfer mode (ASCII/Binary/Auto), data connection mode (PASV/PORT/Auto), after transfer events, timestamp handling, byte offset from which to restart broken transfers, and more.

Transfer Settings Page

Right-Click Shell Integration
Transfer files with a click of the mouse, from the Windows Desktop or Explorer.