Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cloud may be taking over as the de facto online storage solution, but the need for FTP (file transfer protocol) clients ...

WinSCP, aka Windows Secure Copy, is a free, open-source FTP client. Supporting both SFTP and SCP protocols (upshot: secure transfers), WinSCP is fast and lightweight while still supporting advanced ...

In every organization, sharing files is an everyday workplace task. Sharing files insecurely, however, can be an expensive risk for any organization. To eliminate such risks, organizations should ...

If you’ve ever watched an e-mail application choke on a 4MB attachment, you know that sometimes you need an alternative to directly sending or receiving files. And if you’ve ever e-mailed a crucial ...

Last week’s README file demonstrated how easy it is to turn virtually any desktop machine into an SFTP server. Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using ...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS. There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two ...

Let’s imagine a situation where we want to write a pure Java application that must download files from a remote computer running an FTP server. We also want to filter downloads on the basis of remote ...

Last night I was grabbing a 180MB file from home over 1 way cable (ie dial up for upstream, cable for downstream). In the morning I quit sftp so I wouldn't be soaking up all my parent's upstream ...

Reader Gregg Andrews has an iOS device here and files there and wonders how to bring the two together. He writes: My company keeps a lot of work files on an FTP server. When I travel I’d like to take ...