The program lets you upload and download data or delete one or more files, including whole folders along with subdirectories. The transfer interface window shows what percentage of files has already been uploaded or downloaded. It can also automatically resume and complete file transfers, which for some reason, have been interrupted, or periodically attempt to connect with the FTP server if the pervious link was unsuccessful.
FastTrack FTP features modern security standards including SSL, SSL2, SSL3, TLS, SSH, SSH2, PGP, and password encryption. The program supports a multitasking data transfer mode, files and folders synchronization, scripts, 128-bit encoding, and more. FastTrackFTP allows you to create and configure various error processing rules, file overwriting rules, action processing and more.
Let's look closer at the program's capabilities. Don't worry, you won't be overwhelmed with dozens of tabs, buttons and more. FastTrack FTP has an intuitive and handy UI ("drag-and-drop" supported) which allows beginners as well computer professionals to learn the software quickly.
To support simultaneous file transfer, FastTrack FTP creates the required number of sessions. At this time (during the file transfer process), a user can continue browsing the site. The software allows you to create 'smart' file renaming rules, extension processing rules, registry editing rules, and set up data transfer modes (ASCII or Binary). FastTrack FTP also features a special carriage return symbols editor which can be very useful when editing scripts. The software can automatically turn on/off the passive data transfer mode as needed and correct connection settings input errors.
FastTrack FTP features a really handy site manager (FTP-server editor) which allows you to easily handle large number of sites. It also includes a built-in zip-compressor.
FastTrack FTP can handle file groups and allows you to change attributes of files stored on an FTP-server. The special editor allows you to edit files directly on the server. You can set up additional custom commands and add them to the main menu. Custom commands can be grouped by various criteria. It is also possible to connect an external HTML editor to edit web pages and other files.
For business sites, as opposed to private home pages, information security comes into play. Can you estimate the possible losses in case your web site is hacked? Chances are that the loss would be painful. With this in mind, you should remember the one big FTP-protocol disadvantage: data is transmitted in an un-encrypted form. That is why FastTrackFTP supports Shell Access, FTPS (File Transfer Protocol using SSL), SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) and many others. The good news is that you do not need to install and connect any additional external libraries in order to use these protocols. Thus, all traffic will be encrypted and it will be impossible to intercept your login and password.
Among other useful features, we would like to draw your attention to the following: download resume, log files, directories compare and synchronization with a few clicks (considering local time zones), clipboard monitoring, transferal of large (over 1 GB) files, proxy servers and firewalls support, SOCKS 4, 4.5 and 5, download speed display, and assigning the starting directory (on a local hard drive as well as on a server) for each server. There is also a 'keep alive' feature which keeps the connection to a server alive by sending special commands. All this speeds up your work and allows you to avoid unnecessary searches. When connected to a desired FTP-server, you get the desired server directory opened in the right panel and the desired local hard disk directory in the left panel. When comparing the contents of the local directory and the server contents, files that differ are highlighted.
The built-in scheduler can do all the night work while you are sleeping.