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Hi. as I've never used FTP for any file sharing over the Internet, please bear with me...
I'm on MacOS and would like to share a file with a Windows 10 user.
I would like the transfer to be secure (so i guess I'll need SFTP).
I also don't want the other user having (full) access to my home folder with my personal login information in order to fetch a file.
Just upload a particular file to that user, once...
So how can i use filezilla to achieve this (the easy way...). ?
Thanks for your help.

FileZilla can only transfer files to/from servers.

If you want to run the client on your PC, then either the other user needs to run a server, or you exchange files via an intermediary server with both of you running a client.

While we do not offer any SFTP server products, FileZilla Sever support FTP over TLS (FTPS). It is available for Windows only.

In terms of security, there is little difference between SFTP and FTPS if using FileZilla as client, it warns you if anything insecure is going on.

ok, well in that scenario, i guess FTPS will do.
Can i run the filezilla server inside a VM (on MacOS), f.ex. with Virtualbox, Parallels or Vmware and if so, how should i proceed to get it up and running ?

I suppose you can run the server in a VM. Make sure to forward the required ports, please refer to the Network Configuration guide. You can test your setup on https://ftptest.net/

You could also try WineBottler on Mac.