Before starting to work with FastTrackFTP, please have a look at the wide range of preferences offered.

After clicking on "Preferences", you can access the following sections: "Connection", "Transfer", "Security" and "Display".

Connection

In the "General" section, please configure the general settings: "Time Out", "Multi-Session", and "Port modes".

FastTrackFTP supports the multi-session mode. You can set the number of sessions so that the program uses multiple connections when simultaneously transferring multiple files. It is also possible to browse the site when downloading/uploading files.

Proxy / Firewall

If you connect to the Internet using a proxy-server, please configure the following options: Proxy, Firewall, Sockets 4/4A/5.

Keep Alive

This feature allows you to trick an FTP-server and keep the connection alive while you are not working with the program.

Log-file

Check the "Enable Log" checkbox to ensure that all actions performed by the application will be recorded to the .log text file.

Transfer

There are four sections: "ASCII/Binary", "Smart Transfer", "Rename Rules" and "Events".

ASCII/Binary

You can choose either the ASCII or Binary transfer mode depending on the files extension.

Carriage Return

FastTrackFTP allows you to change "Carriage Return" for desired files so that the binary transfer mode could be used instead of ASCII when sending the files. To do this, please select files on the local computer and click "Carriage Return" in the main menu.

Thus, you can set a desired carriage return (in scripts) before uploading data to a server. The point is that if your scripts contain text of various encodings or special characters, you won't be able to use the ASCII transfer mode. In this case, it is recommended that you use the Binary transfer mode and the "Carriage Return" editor.

Smart Transfer

Using this feature you can set "smart" rules for files re-writing. For example, the program can check for the following file info:

- Creation time
- Size
- The ability to ignore files which have zero size
- Transfer Direction

Rule execution algorithm:

- Skip
- Re-write
- Resume
- Rename
- Ask user

Files size and checksum verification can be performed after file transfer to make sure that the data has been successfully transferred.

File renaming rules

This feature allows you to set a file names/extensions change order when transferring files to/from a server.

Please add a new rule and set a mask, for example: *.htm -> *.html.

You can also set a case change order by checking the "Case Sensitive" option.

Actions

Here, you can choose actions which should be executed after uploading/downloading data to/from a server.

Actions available:

• Disconnect from site
• Disconnect from site and close the application
• Shut down computer

• Try again
• Disconnect from site and try again
• Disconnect from site

General interface settings

Set a start directory which will be opened on program startup, an interface font, and the special option which determines the program's main window position, size and column width. Save layout: saves current columns width and file list display settings (file name, date, size, accessed date and time, etc.)

Please specify if the program should display icons associated with a file.. You can configure the file list settings as desired: enable multicolored icons or just show plain folders.

Prompt

Specify if the program should ask for confirmation when:

• shutting down the application
• deleting files
• deleting folders
• deleting site profiles
• renaming files

Sounds

Set sounds for specified tasks, for example:

• Connected
• Disconnected
• Upload started
• Upload stopped
• Upload finished
• Download started
• Download stopped
• Download finished
• Error

Different countries use different date format, therefore FastTrackFTP offers you a choice between the European (DD/MM/YYYY) and American (MM/DD/YYYY) date format.

Error correcting

The software automatically recognizes formats and corrects user errors when he/she enters an address.

Browsing

Here, you can configure file list settings/formats.

Language Settings

The program allows you to change the program's interface language. To translate the interface to a desired language, please copy the contents of the language.lan file to the yourlanguage.lan file and translate the text inside to a desired language.

HTML Editor

FastTrackFTP features a built-in HTML editor.

There are two buttons: "Run" and "Edit". Click on Run to launch the default application associated with the current file type. By default, clicking on Edit launches the built-in text editor, however the program also allows you to set any other text editor as the default. You can edit files directly on a server using the simple built-in text editor.

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