I bought the iOS version of Transmit for $10 just before they took it off the App Store. As I recall it was a very strong 5-star rated app with about 1000+ reviews.
One of the things I’ve just recently figured out how to do is use it to send files from my iPhone to my Mac and to also grab files on my Mac and download to my iPhone. Of course that means I can also move files from Dropbox, iCloud–anywhere–including from my own web site–to my phone, Mac, wherever.
While I also own all the Yummy titles, Cyberduck, Forklift (also from a bundle), I’m now looking forward to acquiring Transmit for Mac OS.
I used Fetch back with it was still a Desk Accessory! It served my purposes very, very well for, I’m guessing, twenty five years (my first commercial site, uploaded in 1996, is still up). I would have kept on using it if it were updated. But, alas, time moves on- and I’m now happily using Transmit.
I last used Fetch about 6 months ago when I had an issue connecting to a website using Yummy. It connected with Fetch first time and I was weirdly then able to have it work on Yummy by importing the bookmark from Fetch. I guess the servers at Kualo needed to see the running dog.
FTP connections to different servers has become a mystical art with rhyme or reason some days, which once again points the way towards developers using their own hosting.
@steveb I’m also in the process of moving away from Yummy. I’m leaning toward Forklift since my needs are simple and it comes with setapp. Have you found a way to export/import your bookmarks from Yummy into anything else? Each one has to be done manually as far as I can tell, I hope I’m wrong!
@BT777 Same with Forklift. It all had to be done manually, but again it can all by synched between computers once done. If your needs are simple you may even find one of the free ones viable, but if you have Forklift as part of setapp it’s a decent choice.
Using Forklift will take you a while to adapt and I’ve found it much easier since saving spaces, so the appearance is consistent each time I connect to a bookmark.
Many seem able to import bookmarks. Few seem willing to export. I suspect this more about making it harder for users to simply migrate away to a competing app. If you use something like 1Password and keep the login data recorded it shouldn’t take long to switch, unless you have hundreds of bookmarks.
Have you looked at https://cloudmounter.net just mount the ftp directory as a drive and drag and drop. Sure you could do some fancy stuff with automator to sync/backup/protect.
The hosting has been allowed to expire without renewal. I read that it won’t work at all with Catalina, so anybody still using Yummy needs to think about alternatives unless they plan on sticking with Mojave.
I was using Yummy over 10 year. As it stopped working on Catalina (it’s 32bit), I found Viper FTP as amazing replacement (first was using Lite version, then moved to the full version). Viper has everything I need and not much more - that’s why it’s easy and intuitive for me. Recommend.
I bought Forklift when it was on offer recently. After floundering around for a while I set aside a couple of hours last week and really got to grips with the basics. I’m very pleased with it. (Though I miss Yummy).
I use Transit, have done for a while now, but can’t say I’m impressed. I really dislike the way it informs you, or often doesn’t, how an upload is progressing. To the best of my understanding, there seems to be two ways, which for a start is stupid. One, is the bar that appears under the name of the connect, the other is blue server activity button which gentle pulses (or summit) during an upload. But from what I can tell, there is no consistency here: Sometimes it’s the green bar, sometimes the blue icon. Often I’ve tried to close Transit as the green bar has gone (meaning it’s finished uploaded) only to discover the upload was still happening.
When it comes to uploads in progress, I don’t want subtle notices, I want a big fookoff sign telling me what is happening.
Also, today I setup a new Mac, getting the bookmarks to sync via the built-in sync system took about 20 attempts over the course of the day for it to actually happen.
I’ve bought it now, so I’ll stick with it, but I wouldn’t buy it again and wouldn’t recommend it.
I do like the general file interface though, that’s better than most.