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Originally Posted by Dressmaker  Does anyone have any experience with Filezilla and the FTP software they offer? I'm in need of new FTP software that will work with Vista, and this is a freeware site that seems like it's been around a while.
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I have used FileZilla in the past but don't care for it, although it works swell if you don't have a lot of files to transfer. FTP clients open multiple connections to the server when copying multiple files. These connections are constantly being opened and closed with a large batch of files.
This is where FileZilla has a tendency to not close some of these connections properly. As a result you get a "too many connections open" error from the server (more than 8 usually), resulting in a disconnect from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on how long it takes for the server to default them to closed. However I've never had it timeout before transferring several hundred files.
I have my own server as well as xxamp on localhost because I have multiple forums and blogs running: mostly for theme and skin developement. Some forums consist of thousands of files which invariably will cause a disconnect with Filezilla. I use CuteFTP now and have no longer have disconnect problems.