Nothing funny about feldspar

I’ve been using Cyberduck for FTPing and SFTPing stuff all over the ‘net for a couple of years now. Each release seemed to get a bit better, with new features and enhancements to the interface coming several times a year.

The most recent incarnation, however (2.7.2) has taken a huge step backward. Remote/local directory syncing, which I didn’t know I needed until it stopped working, stopped working properly. I can’t drag a folder full of files to the remote server anymore without it crashing. It starts up by making a connection that I never asked for! And when did I lose the Transcript drawer?

The Cocoaforge forum has a few messages from people in similar straits, but it doesn’t seem there is a fix in the works.

So now I’m trying to decide if I want to give RBrowser Lite another chance. I quit it because it was so darned slow. Or perhaps it’s time to pony up some cash for a shareware program, like YummyFTP (crappy name, but it seems to be pretty cool — what is it with software names these days?).

Please don’t tell me to just use the FTP from the command line. I like graphical interfaces to filesystems.

Maybe if I’m just patient for a while longer, Cyberduck will be fixed. That would be a good solution to my problem.

Patience. Yeah.

update (4/5/07) Oh dear. I’m so sorry I didn’t see David’s comment in moderation for the last two and a half months. I’ve been blogging almost exclusively via TextMate, so I seldom go to the comments page. (The most annoying part is that I do check my mail, but gmail must’ve shunted my own blog mail to spam. Thanks, google.)

I do still use Cyberduck, but I haven’t tried the sync thing for a while. I do know the app has been updated since I originally wrote this post. I’ll try it sometime soonish and update this post.