![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t say that I evaluated all the possibilities in depth, since, while a number of programs now support Amazon S3, Automator support was also essential, and few of the file transfer programs advertise that feature. So after 17 years of relying on Fetch and Interarchy, this particular combination of needs sent me looking for a new file transfer client. ![]() I turned first to Cyberduck to solve this problem, since it supported Amazon S3 and set the file permissions correctly, but Cyberduck didn’t come with Automator actions, forcing me to upload each file manually. And while Interarchy does work with Amazon S3, its Automator support was a little dicey and worse, when I started this project, it set files uploaded to Amazon S3 to be private, requiring me to do manual fiddling to enable them to be seen by non-authenticated users. Unfortunately, while Fetch has good support for Automator, it doesn’t work with Amazon S3. This is not difficult work, but it’s repetitive and fussy-particularly the file naming, which takes our nicely human readable filenames and makes them shorter and more appropriate for online filenames-and anything that’s repetitive and fussy should be automated. Nevertheless, Fetch and Interarchy always served my file transfer needs, so I never found the time to explore any of the newer alternatives… until I wanted to use Automator.Ĭhanging Needs - One aspect of distributing a new Take Control ebook title is that I need to create a number of precisely named files on my Mac, after which they need to be uploaded to multiple destinations, which include our primary server via SFTP, to Amazon S3, and to a soon-to-be-retired server via FTP. ![]() But file transfer is no longer rocket science, and thanks to lulls in their developmentĪnd other factors, over time the two applications were joined by a whole host of competing file transfer programs that offered slightly different takes on the task, including Captain FTP, CuteFTP Mac Pro, Cyberduck, Filezilla, Flow, ForkLift, Transmit, Yummy FTP, and more. Both also eventually changed hands, with Jim Matthews buying Fetch back from Dartmouth with money won on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and Interarchy developer Matthew Drayton buying the program from Peter Lewis. I bundled Anarchie with the second edition of “Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh.”īoth Fetch and Anarchie, the latter eventually renamed Interarchy when it proved impossible for Peter to acquire the domain name during the domain name land grab days, remained the standard Mac FTP clients for years, each adding features and file transfer protocols, experimenting with different interfaces, and becoming ever more reliable. Also mentioned in that book was FTPd, a program from Peter Lewis that let you set up your Mac as an FTP server Peter soon shifted gears and wrote Anarchie, an FTP client that went Fetch one better by including the capability to search the Archie servers that indexed the contents of public FTP servers on the Internet. Written by Jim Matthews when he was at Dartmouth College, Fetch was one of the first graphical Mac applications for the Internet, and I bundled a copy of it with the first edition of my “Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh” in 1993.
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