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Tutorial page don't include all screenshots of application, but only presents those which are necessary for tutorial. For complete detailed real size screenshots please visit screenshots page. 

Quick tutorial links.

 

Absolutely flexible connection options.

ACTIVE vs PASSIVE mode, connection retry settings. Optionally save password in plain text or encrypted text or choose not to save but have BatchFTP prompt for password when it connects to FTP server.

5 different choices for smart overwrite.

You can select between 5 different options when BatchFTP finds that a file with the name already exist in the destination folder. It works consistently for both upload & download.

It can either do:

  1. Never overwrite
  2. Date based comparison
  3. Size based  comparison
  4. Always overwrite
  5. Prompt for every such file and let user decide it.

Create HTML link of Batch files and share them across internet site/blogs.

You can create HTML links of batch files. Create a batch file link it in HTML and use it on to your blogs or websites for people to click and  launch BatchFTP. Now your users/viewers can choose the files that they want to get from your site, even change the location where they want to download. 

Best for anyone who like to transfer multiple files to user's machine using one click. Another good use is for people/company who build websites for their customers. They can create a batch file link it to HTML for their customer to download.

For example click the link below (after you have installed BatchFTP) to launch sample batch file. You can then optionally hit start button to download files onto your local computer or close BatchFTP without running full demo. 

Click here to see the demo. 

 

Drag & drop wherever needed.

Drag and drop between local and remote computer view. For upload and download.
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 Drag and drop inside batch item view to change priority of a file transfer.
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Add favorite FTP sites to favorite menu just like browser.

Add any FTP site to the favorites by click of a button. Once added you can access them from favorite menu. 
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 Categorize & organize favorite sites in a simple hierarchy using the intuitive GUI just like your borwser. 
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Last 10 accessed FTP servers on toolbar.
Every time you connects to a FTP server and save the batch. It is automatically added to the recently opened batch and so available in the toolbar buttons. Next time you want to connect to the same FTP server, just click the button.

Tips and warning whenever necessary.
Whenever needed BatchFTP provides you hints and warnings thorough the system to guide and you decide what is more appropriate.
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Change output location of a subfolder to be different than parent folder.
Let say if you have added folder d:\parent  to be uploaded to /root. Ideally all subfolder of d:\parent will go inside /root but after adding the item to batch you can edit output location of an individual subfolder to go to a different folder than /root so for example you can change such that d:\parent\Child will go inside /root/foo

Size in usual KB format and raw byte format both.
File filters during browsing & file transfer.
While browsing you can specify a filter for example *.jpg  to display only JPG files.
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 You can specify filters for file transfers. Also here you can specify not one but a set of filters. Also you can use filters for inclusion as well as exclusion. 
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Launch third party software on downloaded files.
You can set to launch any third party software or an antivirus software on all downloaded files. 
You can also pass on any arguments that your antivirus software may use.
Completely integrated with task scheduler.
You can schedule a batch to run at later one time or recurring run. Since BatchFTP is completely integrated with WINDOWS task scheduler, you don't have to leave it running once the task is added to task scheduler.
History support everywhere.
When you type in a FTP server name it will auto fill for you from looking up in registry. Once you enter a FTP URL, it adds up in the registry.
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 When you type in a directory name for changing directory it will auto fill for you from looking up in the registry. Once you entered the new directory name it adds up in the registery.
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Browse and transfer file together.
 Using BatchFTP you can browse through the FTP server folders, while a file transfer is already in progress. 
Logs only relevant information and do not over-flood user with unnecessary info.
Detailed log window. It can be maximize to the desired size you like, or can be left at the bottom with the default size. Note that BatchFTP only logs those messages which are most relevant to a user for example we log something like: "Deleting destination file because it is older than the source file", rather than saying "Opening Port blah setting type I". Our idea is to not overwhelm user with each server response like all other FTP clients do.
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Simply click the batch file to connect and start transfer.
User can click batch files in windows explorer. This will launch BatchFTP and connect to the FTP server corresponding to that batch file. So you can have multiple batch files corresponding to various servers. Optionally you can click them together to connect to various FTP server at the same time.

Beautiful part of the above feature is that batch files can have list of items to transfer along with server info. So when someone opens a batch file, not only they automatically connects to the server, but also have a list of items already in batch ready to be transferred. A good use can be to create a batch file with encrypted password and pass it on to your friend/family by email or display it on HTML page. Now they have to simply click the link or open that batch file and hit start button to transfer files from your PC to theirs. 

For demo click the link below (after installing the BatchFTP). Choose open when browse prompts you to save or open.
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Auto mode and batch mode also change packet size to best utilize bandwidth.

BatchFTP allows you to define many system wide settings, which are common to all the batch files. 
For example:

  1. Batch Mode or Auto Mode. Refer help for details. But mainly it is to say BatchFTP whether you want to auto start the file transfer once an item is added to the queue or you want batchFTP to wait till user hits start button from the toolbar.
  2. Check for update on every connect.
  3. Packet size: You can fine tune the performance of BatchFTP based on the available bandwidth to you. This is a very handy feature.
  4. You can change packet size to best suits your bandwidth.

 

Change folders in local and remote view using folder browser.

A very nice feature, if you are a new user or someone who hates typing like me :) you can use this browse for folder dialog box consistently for both local and remote computer.

Same is available when you move to or copy to item(s) to a different folder.
Quick tour Feature.
Best of all recommended for all first time users. 60 seconds tour which takes to to all necessary steps to get you started in 60 seconds after installing the application.
Context sensitive help.
Any time at any place in BatchFTP simply hit SHFT+F1 and then click to the place for which you want to know more.
As in example below I clicked SHFT +F1 and then clicked on the packet size in the report window. So it is showing me help about packet size.
Miscellaneous quick screenshots.

 

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