FTP programmes

[Tigger]

DOes anyone know if there is an ftp program that shows you previews of whats in a folder.

For example one that would bring up thumbnails of my rediculously full splattdesigns/misc directory?

[The Frog Meister]

never met one mate..... but cute allows you to preview one file at a time... sorry

[Myk]

Not sure that they exist least not for previewing the images which is what I pressume youre after. See in order to preview them all it would first have to download them all which is just as long winded as doing it manually

I maybe wrong but I just cant see how a program like that would work.

[wildpitch]

Originally posted by Myk
Not sure that they exist least not for previewing the images which is what I pressume youre after. See in order to preview them all it would first have to download them all which is just as long winded as doing it manually

I maybe wrong but I just cant see how a program like that would work.

Exactamente!

[RipleyPillwall]

Exceed (humming bird software) allows you to do this BUT it is very pricery (£1500++) . It includes lots of lovely tools for sql ,oracle etc.

[wildpitch]

Originally posted by RipleyPillwall
Exceed (humming bird software) allows you to do this BUT it is very pricery (£1500++) . It includes lots of lovely tools for sql ,oracle etc.

Bargain. Without any server side software creating previews on the fly, it still has to download the full file to your PC first though surely?

[Tigger]

Just found exceed on Kazaa - 133 Meg!

Hmm I think theres a bit more to it than thumbnail previews and I think its server-side software.

Ah well never mind.

[RipleyPillwall]

there is loads more to it -hence the price.

I am not sure if you ca ncustomise install etc but I love it's FTP functionality/usability is quite fantastic..

[Tigger]

Aye - I've had a look and it looks pretty handy - but it'll take mne weeks to download so I'll wait till I visit my mate with broadband again!

Cheers for putting me onto it though!

[The Frog Meister]

hmmmmmmm looks like a good proggy... will have a look at it tonight


133Mb??? around 1 hour

[Myk]

I just use Windows Commander for FTP, infact I use it for everything, browsing, compressing n decompressing, converting the works...gotta be the best program ever made

[The Frog Meister]

can't find it

[fugjostle]

Originally posted by wildpitch
Bargain. Without any server side software creating previews on the fly, it still has to download the full file to your PC first though surely?

Yep.

I use Exceed for working with Unix. It is overkill for what you need. It works like X-Windows, an agent sends back the screen from the remote system to your local PC... at least that is how it works under Unix. Its basically a posh telnet.

Why don't you use a HTML thumb generator from tucows and just access it via a web page. It would be pretty straight forward to run a cron/at job that updated the thumbs page on a regular basis.

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