FileZilla problem, any other better alternative?

JonamKos

JonamKos

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Hi guys, Recently I have decided to switch hosts from Hostgator ( used to be good, gone worse under EIG, presently they are trying to milk the cow by offering 60% off flash sales and over-crowding their servers in the process) to KnownHost SSD VPS. But when I tried to download the website files with FileZilla yesterday, it showed the message "Target file already exists" while downloading a couple of times and it seems the size of the files on the server that is is trying to download is different from the size of the files on my local computer at the destination folder. It gives me the options to "overwrite" and some other options like "overwrite if the file is newer" etc. But I am concerned about the issues and fear I may mess up the websites if I choose the overwrite options, when uploading the files to my new SSD VPS at KnownHost. Has anyone experienced situations like this and what have you done to solve the problem?

Also any other alternatives to FileZilla? I did some research and came up with FTP programs like WinSCP, SmartFTP, FireFTP etc. But haven't tried them yet. Any recommendations for a reliable FTP program? Thanks for your time.
 


Filezilla's been weird for me so I'm stuck using a piece of shit called cyberduck on my mac, but on windows, WinSCP has been the best alternative we've found yet.
 
Don't know any other alternative for Filezilla other than the Cpanel File Manager.

Hope you solved it already. Is it a Filezilla Problem? Would love to hear about your found solution too. If other FTP software is still doing the same thing and compressing the files, then go fuck your hosting server.

Does KnownHost have unlimited site email creation and a free toll free number for business accounts? Still using hostgator and are thinking for a switch too cause of the LLAAAGG and the errors. But the unli email creation of hostgator seems to stop me from moving to Gofady daddy as they charge $5 per email address created per employee.
 
JonamKos said:
... "Target file already exists" while downloading a couple of times and it seems the size of the files on the server that is is trying to download is different from the size of the files on my local computer at the destination folder...
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Have you tried downloading to a different folder on your computer and then manually comparing some of the files?
 
You're either retrieving a file from your server and putting it on your computer or vice versa. That means if the transfer fails, which is essentially what is happening here, the source file remains the same. So all you have to do is choose to overwrite the destination file again with the source and there shouldn't be any problems. It happens with some frequency, and this is what I have always done without any issues whatsoever.
 
Flip to LINUX, and use sshfs. Your server basically becomes part of your local file system. Works great.
 
If you work online, and your livelihood revolves around working with LINUX based servers, then yeah, switching your OS to LINUX tends to make shit easier.
 
I use filezilla and winscp, both solid. Stop wasting your time with individual files via FTP, just zip up the entire /public_html directory and download that for your new hosting.

That filezilla issue may be related to the length of windows path name limit.
 
Fatbat said:
You're either retrieving a file from your server and putting it on your computer or vice versa. That means if the transfer fails, which is essentially what is happening here, the source file remains the same. So all you have to do is choose to overwrite the destination file again with the source and there shouldn't be any problems. It happens with some frequency, and this is what I have always done without any issues whatsoever.
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Thank you for the point. That should clear it up. But still what worries me is how come the targeted files (destination files) become bigger than the source files in some cases! Maybe they get corrupted in the process and show it bigger than the source files. Maybe I am thinking too much. Thanks for your valuable post anyway!
 
What I know is that Hostgator FTP is default to SFTP, S stands for secure. So just configure Filezilla to use SFTP and that should be working fine.
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Kiopa_Matt said:
If you work online, and your livelihood revolves around working with LINUX based servers, then yeah, switching your OS to LINUX tends to make shit easier.
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4 realz tho

I understand it's drastic to tell someone 'yea just switch your OS', but if you're talking about years of your life spent working on a computer, it makes a difference to use good tools. If you're a mechanic you don't buy shitty Chinese wrenches once you have the money for snap on or whatever.

After 10+ years on Linux exclusively, I treated myself to a MacBook pro because they are fucking nice. The first thing I did was buy Parallels so I could have a decent virtual machine. So even on OSX, I have Linux running 24/7 and for all of my actual work I ssh into the Linux virtual machine.

how anyone technical uses Windows is a mystery to me
 
pinchyfingers said:
4 realz tho

I understand it's drastic to tell someone 'yea just switch your OS', but if you're talking about years of your life spent working on a computer, it makes a difference to use good tools. If you're a mechanic you don't buy shitty Chinese wrenches once you have the money for snap on or whatever.

After 10+ years on Linux exclusively, I treated myself to a MacBook pro because they are fucking nice. The first thing I did was buy Parallels so I could have a decent virtual machine. So even on OSX, I have Linux running 24/7 and for all of my actual work I ssh into the Linux virtual machine.

how anyone technical uses Windows is a mystery to me
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A lot of Windows tools get the job done but they barely get the job done. Windows is built for the consumer and not the power user. When you compare some clunky piece of drag and drop savagery like Filezilla to a tool like rsync you wonder how you got anything done in Windows.
 
I use WinSCP/BitKinex/MobaXterm depending on what I'm doing. I also have a few Linux VMs. I wouldn't use Linux as a desktop OS though (it's pretty garbage for that, and OS X isn't much better these days). It's much easier just to have VM running in the background. Given the popularity of .net and what not, someones getting work done on Windows somewhere.

This guy has a decent list of power tools you may find useful on Windows: Scott Hanselman's 2014 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Scott Hanselman
Must-Have Windows Software (or Windows Programs that I use) - good coders code, great coders reuse
 
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