Trans Mac Tip: SFTP on OSX via nightly build of FileZilla 3 Beta
FileZilla is a rockin' free FTP/SFTP client for Windows. I have been quite bummed that I haven't had it on the MacBook these past couple months. In it's place I have been using a very good Firefox FTP extension FireFTP.
But today I hit a roadblock. SFTP. FireFTP can't do it.
Out of desperation I decided to run a Google search and to my astonishment there were a couple blog posts pointing out that if you go into the nightly FileZilla 3 builds you can see that both Mac OS X and Linux versions are available.
This was a very nice surprise since I was mostly looking to find someone else whining about the lack of FileZilla on the Mac and then having someone reply with a decent replacement.
Right now there is no way to import the sites.xml file into the nightly build, so you will have to setup all your sites by hand, hopefully that is resolved soon. But hey, I was able to connect to my SFTP server and get the job done.
Awesome.


