Transmit is an excellent FTP (file transfer protocol), SFTP, S3 (Amazon.com file hosting) and iDisk/WebDAV client that allows you to upload, download, and delete files over the internet. With the most Mac-like interface available, Transmit makes FTP as simple, fun, and easy as it can possibly be.
What's New
Version 4.1.9:
Fixes a possible issue with the Transmit Disk menu extra
Fixes a recurring Keychain issue with Mac OS X 10.6
4.1.7 has been there since last year. I think you mean 4.1.8 or 4.1.9, and I'm wondering the same thing. Hopefully they update the crapstore version soon...
I just upgraded today from 4.1.7 to 4.1.8 and as soon as I did I lost the ability to mount any of my Transmit Favorites to my desktop! This is a real problem and I am at a lost at finding a fix!
I've gone almost a day now and still no help from support. This has to something to do with the upgrade since I immediately lost the feature within minutes of trying to use the feature with the new version. This has hosed my work for an entire day now!
Exactly the same for me, since upgrading to 4.1.8 I'm unable to mount any shares as a disk. despite the same bookmarks connecting fine from within Transmit, I get a password error when using the Transmit menubar icon to mount them as a disk. Annoying!
When software developers make a mistake like this where everything was working perfectly for me, then I upgrade and therefore lose more than a day’s worth of working time, those developers should be QUITE WILLING TO COMPENSATE the lost time with actual hard earned money!!! These people have honestly fucked me HARD and it is not good!
You hear that Transmit people!! You all better pony up for this one!
This really sucks! I expected better from the Transmit people but they just got in touch with me and told me to trash the new version and revert back to 4.1.7 = http://www.panic.com/museum/transmit
Just got this from support : Sorry for the trouble. This is a known issue and will be fixed soon in a free update.
I guess they're working on it so we'll just have to be patient. You think it would be a feature they'd test but I know how these issues can creep up on you unannounced.
Panic's a great program and I've come to rely on the share mounting feature, let's hope it's back soon.
Stop being such an arrogant a-hole. 4.1.7 was released last year and was broken in ways such as Growl support and kernel panic in ML. Besides, Panic is supposed to be the highest quality software for Mac you can get so any Mac user would expect properly tested software from these guys. Obviously their QA team needs a good talking to in this instance.
We had problems trying to upgrade users from 4.1.7 to 4.1.8, where users wanted to run the "Check for updates" menu option. The update would download but fail during install (with Transmit not running). The fix was to manually download the update and apply.
Still 5 stars...no other FTP client is as easy to set up, use, deploy and support.
Growl does not work for me either, and has been broken ever since I "upgraded" to the MAS version of Growl. I don't know what the problem is -- the MAS version of Growl has continued to work flawlessly with Coda. I was quite disappointed to lose Growl support in Transmit and it's frustrating that Panic still hasn't properly fixed the problem! (Davidravenmoon: I wish I knew your secret to making Growl work with Transmit!)
The only way I've had Transmit working was to revert back to Growl 1.2. Then it works fine. I've tried updating the Growl framework inside Transmit manually, but that doesn't work either. It's very frustrating, I agree, particularly as I tend to have the speakers off at work and then have no notification when transfers complete. I've emailed Panic to see if they can troubleshoot.
I use this program every day, but only for certain files. If I have to move any large amount of data, I get much better speeds with YummyFTP. Not only that, but in those circumstances, Transmit is slower and also tends to max out my CPU. YummyFTP uses a lot less CPU.
So why do I still use Transmit? The interface. It is a lot easier to navigate servers in Transmit than in YummyFTP (which has a horrible interface). Whenever speed is not of the essence, I'll use Transmit. When speed is what's needed, YummyFTP blows it out of the water.
I agree - about the only reason to use Transmit is its cool interface. To get work done quickly and reliably without draining my laptop battery in an hour, I use Yummy FTP. I think 'horrible interface' is an exaggeration to be fair. It's just functional, while Transmit is designed to be pretty and cool.
Major bug in Transmit. The FTP client cannot send files to any write-only directory. After discovering the bug, Support acknowledged the bug but has no motivation to fix it. This isn't some minor cosmetic issue. Any FTP client that cannot write to write-only directories cannot function at all. It's a dead product without reliability. I've been using this FTP client for years but now I'm switching.
I noticed that, as of 4.1.3, when I double-click a file to edit it in TextWrangler, Transmit opens the page in the background instead of switching me to that program and opening the file in the foreground. I like to make a lot of quick edits all at once, and it's nice to save the step of switching applications each time I open a page. I'm not sure if this is a side effect of the TextWrangler/BBEdit blank window fix, but I'd certainly like to see the old method resurface (or at least an option to revert to 4.1.2's behavior) in the next revision.
I configured a favorite with a remote folder (e.g. "/backup/test”). When I first mount it everything is fine and the remote folder is displayed right away.
Now if I close Finder (Snow Leopard fully updated) or click a local folder and then click the FTP drive again, the remote folder is ignored and the root folder is displayed instead.
Attention! Having administrator privileges you can delete system files and folder on local browser!
I accidentally deleted the contents of my desktop! Transmit warns that you can not delete system files, but then asks for confirmation to do so anyway. If we confirm Transmit erase the file/folder without prompting the system password.
Forklift and Flow do not do this!
More information please? Can *you* delete the files on your Desktop that you mentioned? If so, then why would you expect Transmit not to be able to? These are not "System Files", which would typically require admin privileges to delete.
When I try to delete my desktop with the Finder the system does not allow it and it is right. This does not afford it other programs like Flow or Forklift.
Transmit seems to give to the administrator the root privileges without asking any password . And This is not right.
My system is Snow Leopard v.10.6.3
I'm not following. The Desktop folder grants the logged in user read and write. That means you can delete it via Finder, Terminal, anything without a password. Unless I'm missing some hidden attribute somewhere, I don't understand your problem.
I don't see how Transmit could acquire admin privileges without asking for a password, so I'm not sure how it could delete anything unless your account has those permissions. This is not a Transmit thing, but an OS thing...
Ok. But ...Transmit not put deleted files on bin.
Why remove them permanently?
I repeat: Flow does not delete any files on system folder and Forklift puts them properly on Trash.
Is there something wrong .. Sorry for my bad English and if I do not explain myself well....
I am using Transmit on OS 10.4.11. I am experiencing many stalls and severed connections. I don't recall having this problem a year ago. I like the program but am thinking about switching to something else. Any suggestions?
I have had the same problem since got Transmit installed... and don't know why or when DW got changed the FTP time out to 2 seconds, in the Preferences>Site panel, so I changed it to 30 seconds and now I can connect again to my sites with DW
For some reason after updating to 3.5 every time I upload a large .zip file it seems to upload twice. I'll drag the file to the "Their stuff" side and it starts to transfer. it estimates a time until completion and then when it gets to be that time it uploads the file all over again. Pretty annoying when I am uploading a 400 MB file.
Well, here's what I've found so far about the connection troubles:
I wasn't able to connect using favorites, but I could connect manually.
Here's how to fix the problem:
You'll need to edit each of your favorites. Chances are "Use passive mode for data transfers" is unchecked. Try checking that option and saving your favorite. Reconnect. That has worked for me.
It seems these favorite options were not remembered while upgrading.
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Transmit is an excellent FTP (file transfer protocol), SFTP, S3 (Amazon.com file hosting) and iDisk/WebDAV client that allows you to upload, download, and delete files over the internet. With the most Mac-like interface available, Transmit makes FTP as simple, fun, and easy as it can possibly be.
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Rgator reviewed on 02 May 2012
Any ideas?
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03/05/2012 17:03:10.000 kernel: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x100000000): p=3500[TransmitFSHelper] clearing CS_VALID
03/05/2012 17:03:10.000 kernel: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x100000000): p=3502[askpass] clearing CS_VALID
03/05/2012 17:03:10.000 kernel: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x100000000): p=3503[askpass] clearing CS_VALID
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You hear that Transmit people!! You all better pony up for this one!
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I guess they're working on it so we'll just have to be patient. You think it would be a feature they'd test but I know how these issues can creep up on you unannounced.
Panic's a great program and I've come to rely on the share mounting feature, let's hope it's back soon.
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Stop being such an arrogant a-hole. 4.1.7 was released last year and was broken in ways such as Growl support and kernel panic in ML. Besides, Panic is supposed to be the highest quality software for Mac you can get so any Mac user would expect properly tested software from these guys. Obviously their QA team needs a good talking to in this instance.
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Jfkindc reviewed on 01 May 2012
There are two features I would love to see. 1) a word search on the remote server and 2) a cover art display of files on the remote server.
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Donmontalvo reviewed on 01 May 2012
Still 5 stars...no other FTP client is as easy to set up, use, deploy and support.
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The only way I've had Transmit working was to revert back to Growl 1.2. Then it works fine. I've tried updating the Growl framework inside Transmit manually, but that doesn't work either. It's very frustrating, I agree, particularly as I tend to have the speakers off at work and then have no notification when transfers complete. I've emailed Panic to see if they can troubleshoot.
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anx reviewed on 31 Mar 2012
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Bupkis reviewed on 24 Jan 2012
So why do I still use Transmit? The interface. It is a lot easier to navigate servers in Transmit than in YummyFTP (which has a horrible interface). Whenever speed is not of the essence, I'll use Transmit. When speed is what's needed, YummyFTP blows it out of the water.
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MARK MASON reviewed on 11 Nov 2011
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You can not change permissions recursively and choose
Apply to enclosed Files
Apply To enclosed folders
Apply to enclosed files AND folders
but have to apply it to everything which is really bad!!
Please fix this
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Now if I close Finder (Snow Leopard fully updated) or click a local folder and then click the FTP drive again, the remote folder is ignored and the root folder is displayed instead.
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I accidentally deleted the contents of my desktop! Transmit warns that you can not delete system files, but then asks for confirmation to do so anyway. If we confirm Transmit erase the file/folder without prompting the system password.
Forklift and Flow do not do this!
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Transmit seems to give to the administrator the root privileges without asking any password . And This is not right.
My system is Snow Leopard v.10.6.3
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I don't see how Transmit could acquire admin privileges without asking for a password, so I'm not sure how it could delete anything unless your account has those permissions. This is not a Transmit thing, but an OS thing...
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Why remove them permanently?
I repeat: Flow does not delete any files on system folder and Forklift puts them properly on Trash.
Is there something wrong .. Sorry for my bad English and if I do not explain myself well....
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I am using Transmit on OS 10.4.11. I am experiencing many stalls and severed connections. I don't recall having this problem a year ago. I like the program but am thinking about switching to something else. Any suggestions?
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http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15998/yummy-ftp
I've tried it a little and I like it too, even if I don't find its GUI to be the most beautiful.
Kernel Panic´s when uploading to server. Four panic´s in 24 hours.
Anyone else having this problem.
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I know it's a scary combo, but Transmit 3.5 + Dreamweaver CS3 + Leopard didn't seem to crash.
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I wasn't able to connect using favorites, but I could connect manually.
Here's how to fix the problem:
You'll need to edit each of your favorites. Chances are "Use passive mode for data transfers" is unchecked. Try checking that option and saving your favorite. Reconnect. That has worked for me.
It seems these favorite options were not remembered while upgrading.
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