Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
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Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
I didn't see a Feature Request forum area, so I thought I should put it here.
I need the ability to download to a ZIP archive instead of a directory-file structure.
I think this would be a nice feature, in general.
I've seen at least one FTP program that has this feature.
I need the ability to download to a ZIP archive instead of a directory-file structure.
I think this would be a nice feature, in general.
I've seen at least one FTP program that has this feature.
Re: Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
As far as I know the ZIP algo is commercial, that would make it incompatible to the GPL.
Decision is with the dev as usual.
Decision is with the dev as usual.
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Re: Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
Then use tar and compressors with a good license, would be a very nice and powerful feature, both in download and upload.boco wrote:As far as I know the ZIP algo is commercial, that would make it incompatible to the GPL.
Decision is with the dev as usual.
Download would be nice to have the option to select the files (and their path) to add to the archive manually or by some filter/criteria, timestamp, wildcard etc., same filter would be nice for upload.
Some hosting still doesn't have a decent panel with option to create archives, but in any case would be a directory or a set of files and directories in the current directory only.
There's still a lot of people working without versioning their changes and on hosting with ftp only on upgrades (ex: wordpress customizations) is difficult to track what they've changed, I can ask to create an archive with only the files of their changes but I see that is a slow process (is there in Filezilla a feature to download a file and its path without recreating the path manually?)
Re: Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
The right tool for the right job. I don't believe creating compressed archives is the right job for an FTP client. There are already specialized tools for that job.
Re: Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
Do you mean compress before upload and decompress on server? Because this isn't always possible.botg wrote:The right tool for the right job. I don't believe creating compressed archives is the right job for an FTP client. There are already specialized tools for that job.
In the end the compression isn't really my point, download/upload a set of files like now you do with queues but preserving the paths, I'm using filezilla 3.9.0.5 on linux and I can't find a way to do that, I'm missing something?
In ssh is so easy, jump to the server, create a tar with find, and download, that's it, same for upload, how would you do that with filezilla?
Re: Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
That's not supported by FTP/SFTP at all. Only SSH with shell access.Do you mean compress before upload and decompress on server? Because this isn't always possible.
What do you mean exactly? Transferring directory trees with FileZilla keeps the directory structure. Unwanted files can be filtered out with the Filename filters feature.In the end the compression isn't really my point, download/upload a set of files like now you do with queues but preserving the paths, I'm using filezilla 3.9.0.5 on linux and I can't find a way to do that, I'm missing something?
Since FileZilla doesn't support SSH/shell, you can't.In ssh is so easy, jump to the server, create a tar with find, and download, that's it, same for upload, how would you do that with filezilla?
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Re: Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
I would like to download only a set of files, an option like "keep remote path structure" on manually queued files (that doesn't exist yet, or I'm wrong?), the "search remote files..." does what I need but on some server it take forever.boco wrote:What do you mean exactly? Transferring directory trees with FileZilla keeps the directory structure. Unwanted files can be filtered out with the Filename filters feature.In the end the compression isn't really my point, download/upload a set of files like now you do with queues but preserving the paths, I'm using filezilla 3.9.0.5 on linux and I can't find a way to do that, I'm missing something?
Re: Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
Have a look at synchronized browsing.
Re: Feature Request: Download to a ZIP archive
synchronized browsing assume you have the same tree locally, but I don't want the whole tree locally.botg wrote:Have a look at synchronized browsing.
Connect, select (add to queue) some file in different directories / subdirectories, download queued files preserving path structure, that's it.