Description: KFTPGrabber is a graphical FTP client for KDE. It supports SSL encryption, FXP transfers, multiple FTP sessions (using tabs), bookmark system and more.Last changelog:
* 0.8.1 FIX: Rewritten speed limiting code, so limits work much better now FIX: Directory entry and path caching FIX: Minor file exists dialog problems FIX: Some issues related to using multiple transfer threads FIX: Local directory scans now honor priority settings FIX: Total speed display for multiple running transfers (patch by David Gnedt) AD Added a quick option to set speed limits and number of threads
* 0.8.0 FIX: Fixed some typos FIX: Fixed plugin library linkage FIX: Fixed upload of empty files via TLS/SSL FIX: Take file size into account when doing directory compare
* 0.8.0-beta2 CHG: Rewritten support for custom commands CHG: Left sidebar is now hidden by default AD Individual file mark/compare in the listviews AD Simple directory compare option AD Reimplemented support for SSCN AD A button to clear the list of recent sites FIX: Handle server replies containing NULLs FIX: Implemented a proper remove files dialog FIX: Queue and listview speed optimisations FIX: Some crash fixes FIX: Fixed sorting by timestamp
* 0.8.0-beta1 CHG: Rewritten the browser view to support folders with a lot of files AD Added "move to top/move to bottom" options to the queue AD An option to toggle the use of primary connection for file transfers AD A shortcut to open the current local folder in Konqueror FIX: Fixed a SFTP related crash when aborting FIX: Properly filter selections when using the as-you-type filter
* 0.8.0-alpha2 CHG: Rewritten the filtering API to support complex filters AD A configuration setting to automaticly retry failed transfers AD An option to ignore external IP for LAN connections FIX: Fixed some multiline parsing problems FIX: Fixed some SSL upload related problems FIX: Disable REST on servers that don't support it
* 0.8.0-alpha1 CHG: Rewriten the low-level engine CHG: Some visual changes in the list view AD Keep alive support AD A nice as-you-type filter AD Keyboard shortcuts for common file operations AD A list of recent quick connect sites AD "Skip all", "Overwrite all", "Resume all" options in the file exists dialog AD Support for EPRT (required for IPv6 operation) AD Support for machine readable directory listings (MLSD) FIX: Many different fixes
* 0.7.0-beta1 AD Speed limiting support AD Handling of failed transfers AD "On file exists" action matrix for FXP transfers CHG: Removed KMDI in favor of nice tab widget style from amaroK team CHG: Configuration is now KConfigXT based AD Ability to export directory listings into text files AD Fast directory listings via control channel on servers that support STAT AD Extrapolate transfer speed for FXP transfers AD Integrated SFV checksum verifier AD Global encoding option and ability to change remote encoding on the fly AD Priority list (merged priority and skip list) AD Show current session status AD Sites as top-level queue items AD Ability to view/edit remote files FIX: Many SFTP related fixes AD Support for pubkey authentication (on SFTP connections)
* 0.6.0 CHG: KFTPGrabber has now moved to KDE Extragear, so the build system has been slightly changed FIX: Resuming files using SFTP FIX: Do not refetch directory listings while processing the queue FIX: Queue/server management related crash FIX: Incorrect directory progress when aborting transfer
* 0.6.0-beta2 FIX: Request for password when selecting anonymous in quick connect dialog FIX: Set the correct home dir on some remote connections FIX: Bookmark related crash FIX: Proper encoding of URLs in the queue file FIX: One month timeshift when doing MDTM
* 0.6.0-beta1 AD According to the KDE HIG minimize to tray if the mainwindow is closed AD Experimental support for multiple threads AD Traffic graph AD Commonly used site commands for GlFTPD (more to follow) AD Support for setting per-site encoding CHG: Updated libssh to the latest version to support keyboard-interactive auth CHG: Removed howl in favor of KDNSSD Zeroconf API FIX: Lots of crash fixes FIX: Rewritten directory listing parser FIX: Different queue improvements and bugfixes
* 0.5.0 FIX: Behaviour of the "Show Tree View" button FIX: Processing of queued transfers after aborting a transfer FIX: Fix a progressbar related crash FIX: Many bugfixes to the quickconnect dialog FIX: Adjustment of licenses (thanks to Vince ) FIX: Support for servers that send their local IP instead of the correct one FIX: Upload of files >4GB FIX: FreeBSD threading lib detection AD README and Changelog
* 0.5.0-beta1 AD Experimental SFTP support AD Support of implicit SSL connections AD Support for setting the local directory AD Setting the password for anonymous connections is now possible AD Using transfermodes other than plain FTP is now possible from the quick connect dialog AD Bookmark sidebar AD Zeroconf sidebar AD Saving the mainwindow's position AD Password dialog for Zeroconf connections AD Plugin framework for import filters, currently featuring a gFTP import filter (more to come) AD Option for disabling the splash screen AD Ability to configure the default behavior of overwrite/resume/rename when files already exist in local and remote directories CHG: Use of KMDI for the user interface CHG: Reworked bookmark editor FIX: Off by one for the date's month when uploading files FIX: Reconnection delay can now be up to 9999 seconds FIX: Detection of QSA and Howl in the configure script FIX: ETA calculation FIX: Lots of compile fixes and other bugfixes REM: Global option for the remote directory. The one provided by the server is now used, if not being overridden by the bookmark setting
* 0.4.0 - first public release, so there are many bugs yet to be found
Is the project dead?
This would be a real pity because KDE (or linux itself) is in need of a great, user friendly and stable FTP client. I hoped that your kftpgrabber will do this job. But now its very silent about this project :(
It seems that a great FTP program is a real pain to code because all FTP projects are dead/buggy/not useable or something else.
Bummer!
Hi there,
i uploaded about 450mb of packages with this app yesterday and my package manager tells me that they're all broken (wrong md5sum)...
After this experience, i uploaded eveything again with ncftpput and it works perfectly...
I dont know what this is, but its not my dsl line or the ftp server, there seems something badly broken withing this app...
Here: http://blogdrake.net/node/7505 you can find the rpm of KFTPgrabber 0.8.1 for mandriva 2007.1 that I packed.
I send this rpm to you by email.
Thanks for this excelent application :)
It fails to install on SuSE 10
It writes :
In file included from auth.c:22:
priv.h:58:25: error: openssl/dsa.h: No such file or directory
priv.h:59:25: error: openssl/rsa.h: No such file or directory
priv.h:60:25: error: openssl/sha.h: No such file or directory
priv.h:61:25: error: openssl/md5.h: No such file or directory
priv.h:62:26: error: openssl/hmac.h: No such file or directory
In file included from auth.c:22:
priv.h:63: error: syntax error before ‘SHACTX’
priv.h:64: error: syntax error before ‘MD5CTX’
priv.h:65: error: syntax error before ‘HMACCTX’
This piece of software looks so compromising,
but it is crashing really too often for so many versions now.
I feel sorry to say that, but it seems
to be rather unusable on amd64 computers at the moment...
I hope this will change someday,
because it also has very fundamental and needed features like (TLS/SSL) etc.
I use rather "new" stuff on my gentoo system
(glibc-2.5/gcc-4.1.1/etc but safe CFLAGS),
perhaps this won't work very well.
Btw., most crashes happen here when
uploading/resuming uploads, this just doesn't work here
(Example: i get asked if i want to resume a file->Click on [Yes]-> 5 seconds later -> Crash)
while other tools like gftp seem to have no problem with that.
hm?!
PS: i feel sorry, but kftgrabber is
the only tool behaving that way :/
I also like this app very much. It still has some problems eg. deleting many files on a remote ftp server is very slow. I am using it to manage a large (shared) rpm repo (9000+ srpm/rpms) and its greatest advantage over something like gftp is how you can compare files in dirs. You can easily identify and select differing files between host and remote dirs (unlike gftp which doesn't hide files that are the same).
For those of you that don't like the pop up balloons after transfers, its just a simple matter to disable them in using its configuration options (like I do).
kftgrabber is also the only decent linux ftp app that I can find that will also connect to an ftp server that is using ftp over TLS/SSL (implicit). I have tried others and none seem to work for me.
Keep up the good work guys :-)
it's a great software for me!
actually i can't understand the complaints written above.
KFTPGrabber isn't slow at all. it works perfectly for me.
great features and functionality. thank you for your work!
Very slow transfers for many files. Totally unecessary bubble popups for a totally unecessary systray icon, every file.
And it hung halfway through. Then various other things broke.
Shows promise. But currently I cannot rely on it.
Added a quick option to set speed limits and number of threads
Ratings & Comments
106 Comments
Is the project dead? This would be a real pity because KDE (or linux itself) is in need of a great, user friendly and stable FTP client. I hoped that your kftpgrabber will do this job. But now its very silent about this project :( It seems that a great FTP program is a real pain to code because all FTP projects are dead/buggy/not useable or something else. Bummer!
filezilla
kftpgrabber-0.8.1-1.lotus.i586.rpm at http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/rpm/kftpgrabber.html
rpm openSuSE10.3 x86-64 http://loaditup.de/126530-.html
You put in one more brick into KDE wall. Nice job.
Hi there, i uploaded about 450mb of packages with this app yesterday and my package manager tells me that they're all broken (wrong md5sum)... After this experience, i uploaded eveything again with ncftpput and it works perfectly... I dont know what this is, but its not my dsl line or the ftp server, there seems something badly broken withing this app...
btw it is in k/ubuntu (feisty) repos: http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/kde/kftpgrabber 'sudo apt-get install kftpgrabber'
Here: http://blogdrake.net/node/7505 you can find the rpm of KFTPgrabber 0.8.1 for mandriva 2007.1 that I packed. I send this rpm to you by email. Thanks for this excelent application :)
If I deactivate passive Modus, and connect to a server of one of my friends, kftpgrabber is crashing with sig11.
Mandriva 2007 Discovery, ssl-devel, openssl installed Lang: Russian How to fix problem?
sorry, but error is now solved. i type ./configure --without-ssl, but sample ./configure is succecfully compiled without error.
Hi, could it be possible that kftpgrabber use an ssh-agent in order to authicate with my keys ? Thak's a lot for this tool.
kftpgrabber-0.8.0-1.lotus.i586.rpm at http://home.scarlet.be/raoul.linux/lotus.html
It fails to install on SuSE 10 It writes : In file included from auth.c:22: priv.h:58:25: error: openssl/dsa.h: No such file or directory priv.h:59:25: error: openssl/rsa.h: No such file or directory priv.h:60:25: error: openssl/sha.h: No such file or directory priv.h:61:25: error: openssl/md5.h: No such file or directory priv.h:62:26: error: openssl/hmac.h: No such file or directory In file included from auth.c:22: priv.h:63: error: syntax error before ‘SHACTX’ priv.h:64: error: syntax error before ‘MD5CTX’ priv.h:65: error: syntax error before ‘HMACCTX’
Looks like you don't have openssl-headers/devel packages installed. Fix: Well, install'em ;)
why don't you add http protocol?
This piece of software looks so compromising, but it is crashing really too often for so many versions now. I feel sorry to say that, but it seems to be rather unusable on amd64 computers at the moment... I hope this will change someday, because it also has very fundamental and needed features like (TLS/SSL) etc.
Hmm, for me kftpgrabber works quite well on amd64, at least the basic functions I use ;-) I don't even remember the last crash...
I use rather "new" stuff on my gentoo system (glibc-2.5/gcc-4.1.1/etc but safe CFLAGS), perhaps this won't work very well. Btw., most crashes happen here when uploading/resuming uploads, this just doesn't work here (Example: i get asked if i want to resume a file->Click on [Yes]-> 5 seconds later -> Crash) while other tools like gftp seem to have no problem with that. hm?! PS: i feel sorry, but kftgrabber is the only tool behaving that way :/
I also like this app very much. It still has some problems eg. deleting many files on a remote ftp server is very slow. I am using it to manage a large (shared) rpm repo (9000+ srpm/rpms) and its greatest advantage over something like gftp is how you can compare files in dirs. You can easily identify and select differing files between host and remote dirs (unlike gftp which doesn't hide files that are the same). For those of you that don't like the pop up balloons after transfers, its just a simple matter to disable them in using its configuration options (like I do). kftgrabber is also the only decent linux ftp app that I can find that will also connect to an ftp server that is using ftp over TLS/SSL (implicit). I have tried others and none seem to work for me. Keep up the good work guys :-)
it's a great software for me! actually i can't understand the complaints written above. KFTPGrabber isn't slow at all. it works perfectly for me. great features and functionality. thank you for your work!
v0.8.0 RPM available at my site. if you need the debuginfo rpm and/or the SRPM, just contact me.
Very slow transfers for many files. Totally unecessary bubble popups for a totally unecessary systray icon, every file. And it hung halfway through. Then various other things broke. Shows promise. But currently I cannot rely on it.
Have to say I agree about the bubble popups and systray icon. But I totally like this thing.
Everything you mention is configurable and can be disabled if you don't like it.