Navigate to the file or folder you want to copy, then just drag and drop it as if you were copying or moving any other file, and the items will being to transfer to/from the FTP server to the Mac, or vice versa.īy default the window will show as a minified Finder window, but you can expand the window to your familiar Mac OS X Finder style by pulling down the “View” menu and choosing “Show Toolbar”. The main benefit to expanding the window is that you get the forward and back arrow navigation buttons, in addition to sorting options to browse through the FTP server by icon, name, date, lists, and the search functions.

What about third party FTP clients for Mac? You can also start an SFTP server on any Mac to be able to connect to it this way for downloading or transferring files.īy the way, if you were wondering, I have my titlebars set to display full directory paths which is why you see the path on the remote server in the second screenshot. In no particular order, here are a few free FTP apps for Mac OS X: Since the Finder FTP function does not support some features users may wish to have on their Mac, there are plenty of third party OS X apps that can do the job instead, with full FTP, SFTP, FTPS support, downloads, uploads, queuing, permissions changing abilities, read/write support, and much more.

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