Since the new version I have had problems too, slow and no response.... I could make a cup of tea and drink it everytime I clicked on a folder. I now have a support ticket open as it does not connect to any of my sites. I have downloaded another FTP s/w and this works OK but I would rather use Direct FTP as I have bought it.

This is the exact issue I am having with FTPD as well, and why I am visiting the support forums today. It acts as though it sucks every megabyte of memory out of the computer and then chokes and dies.

There are probably replies beyond this one, so I will confine my initial comment to this.

MEM

Unfortunately, I do not think that the size of the website is the issue. I have been fighting this issue with websites of 100's of pages and with a new website under development with just seven pages in it. It is my opinion that this is directly related to Vista Home Premium and something to do with particular user settings.

Yes, I know it works for some out there, but as you can see it doesn't work for all, so the question is, what is making the difference?

MEM

I chose this path as well, and what a remarkable difference. No offense intended, CoffeeCup, but there was no dragging on loading and the connection to the FTP server was immediate PLUS no hanging on a switch of local or remote directories. This is why I beleive that there is something in Vista that is dogging FTPD.

MEM

Nevins - the amount of your upload and download is not what I would consider being the capabilities of any FTP program. In my opinion that is the purpose of a FTP program that ques up files - you upload and download loads of files when you know the server is going to be less busy.

I agree with Bill, this needs to be looked at by CC and the only way is if people who have the issues such as this report it. I will put a ticket in and see if we can get it looked at.

I've been experiencing problems with Direct FTP, and have e-mailed the issue to the guys at CC.

It seems that Direct FTP creates individual threads when uploading files, and it's these threads that seem to hang. The rest of the queued files seem to upload fine, a bit problematic , but it only seems to happen with gif's for me.

(I'm busy upgrading my wordpress installation. This seems to be a rock-solid test case).

As I type this, I've just gotten an exception on a single file, which I;ve chosen to ignore and the rest have uploaded fine.

I can get around the problem, by not uploading folders containing many sub-folders, instead, by doing it by hand. It's irritating, and I would expect Direct FTP to manage this just fine, but I think the guys at CC can rectify this issue quickly.

Oh...and after my upload has finished, if I "clear uploaded files" and pause then unpause the files that haven't uploaded, I seem to get everything to work ok.

I got a reply from the guys at CC (nice and quick!) and they suggested that it might be because the server only allows a limited number of connections. The fix was to set the number of simltaneous uploads to one (Edit -> Preferences -> FTP).

While it didn't solve the problem for me, it might fix the issue for some of you guys.

Ok, sorry didn't realize you were asking a question. I have perhaps 10 pages, I use Windows XP SP 2, I am not getting any error message it just locks up. Just get NOT RESPONDING.

Hi, does it make a difference using the ctrl+alt+delete and closing any programs runing in the background? I also have XP SP2 no problems uploading 10 pages, or downloading. Just a question.