I just launched the program a few minutes ago, and apparently they're not offering a free version anymore, the copy I have expires today.

No website update yet from what I've seen either.

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=274787

Heh..I really should have looked there first, but I thought the update was effective today since I saw the message for the first time.

Actually glad you posted this, thanks.

bah you people and your advanced ftp clients... I'm still using WS_FTP from 1995.

Probably for that "choo-choo" sound it makes after a file transfer is complete, lol?

afaik, they ripped the original ICQ sounds and used those lol.

What was that one that used to go "Dong!!!!!!!!" when it connected to the server?

I swear that was the newer WS-FTP, I remember a dong from some FTP program lol.

It seems that Avast anti virus is also no longer free

Hopefully AVG-Free stays free.

Hmm... Still working on all of my computers, but I think that we might have a registered version, idk

I hope so! Though, I think I've got a CD for McAfee floating somewhere around here...

Would be a shame for this one to become not free as it's a useful free one

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Still says free...

Yes I noticed that too, however it's telling me I have 17 days. I have the free version only.

SmartFTP 3 is a program I'd pay for, though. I've used it for years and it's always worked wonderfully.

Don't be silly.

*Hearing..

I use FileZilla since Smart FTP would always just kill itsself on my Vista partition, but I bought Transmit for the Mac partition so I really have no worries at the moment. It looks nifty, but FileZilla gets the job done and it goes on my Flash drive too, no frills just what I need. Anyways AVG does the job to in conjunction with Webroot.

You have to register it. That's free too. Go to http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php and do the shebang there, and they send you a key that lets you use it free for a year, at which point you just do it again.

Personally, I don't use any free antivirus. AVG sucks, and Avast looks like someone vomited the UI onto the screen. (Just checked, and apparently nothing's changed there). Hell, Clam has no real-time protection. NOD32 does the job for me, though it's not free.

I like FlashFXP. I use that and I am actually using the sounds that came with some other free one.

I paid for this rather than keep using it free though. There was one I used to use which I can't remember the name of (the one I kept the sounds from and put into this other one), but it started having all kinds of weird issues.

I like this current one because I just ike the look and interface of it mainly.

Smart FTP is good enough to pay for, I believe.

I don't get why everyone is jumping to another product just because they went paid.


If it is a good product, and is useful, why not pay to use it?

Depends how much it costs. Is it expensive?

I'm trying to remember if I ever tried SmartFTP. Seems like I did and didn't like something about it.

Perpetual license for $37.
http://www.smartftp.com/purchase/

Yeah that's a decent price if people like it enough. I see why some would rather not pay when there are good free ones, so it all comes down to whether the pay one is better than the free ones in each person's mind I guess.

I wasn't, being SILLY. It had a popup which said TRIAL version will expire.


Thanks! I did not realize that all I had to do was register. No longer does it say 17 days left
Also the key shows registration expires "never" now.

Yeah, it really is a program worth getting!

use Filezilla I switched when someone told me its better and it sure is in my opinion better

I used smartFTP since 2001

I have a recent version, but doesnt tell me I have to pay yet. I probably will buy it because its a program I like a lot, but I used it just now, was still working fine, dunno when my build will expire though..

You might not of gotten the latest version, meaning you won't have to buy it

FileZilla + WinSCP works just fine. Not sure why I'd pay for a FTP client on Windows when those 2 are better than most paid ones I've seen.

I will not buy CrapFTP. Reason being I can't. No credit card.

I will have to eventually, I think its actually in the SmartFTP code, but every couple of months, the build expires and it forces you to download the latest one.

I'm really missing the upload and download left/right arrow buttons now that I'm using FileZilla.

I guess you can ask old IPB users why they left because IPB went paid even when 'someone' said it wouldn't be.

Sometimes, we simply don't have the money...

I was using another FTP program but it freezed if I downloaded 4 Go files for instance. So I bought SmartFTP today. But I noticed that it is slow compared to the free version, and to the other FTP programs : the other programs said it would take 6 hours to download a 4 Go files and SmartFTP 3.0 says it will take 12 hours...
It must be a setting I have to configure. Does someone know how I can fix this ?

Thank you !

I just set my pc clock back three months and SMARTFTP works lol

My trial version expired a LONG time ago. But, it still works.

If there are equal or better free alternatives, use them - simple as that. Aside from the select-and-press-a-button to upload, FileZilla is much better imho.


...and if not, pay some money and keep using it.

I just use a Firefox extension called FireFTP, it is the best FTP client I have used to date and will always be free.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/684

Yeah, FireFTP is the best.

Does FireFTP finally support sFTP? Server-to-server transfers? Edit-on-server? No? Shame, shame.

Some people require the features that are found in other FTP clients. "Best", in this case, is a personal opinion.

I used SmartFTP when it was free and I didn't like it at all :s

I bought CuteFTP and I wouldn't go with anything else since

Its a really good program.

In my opinion, FlashFXP is better value for money.

My biggest annoyance with SmartFTP now being paid is that it doesn't ever actually change all that much.
I haven't used it for about a year now, and when Im looking, the only thing I see thats new is the Office 2007 theme.

Do you really use an FTP client all that much that it needs a super fantastic UI?

lol, i reinstalled my laptop, go to dl it, and bam, its not longer free, T_T


Then i check on my desktop, its been installed over 70 days and still works,

Yup... SmartFTP, WinRAR and PowerArchiver, among others, are all nagware, and not really trialware. On my sister's PC, WinRAR has been installed for something like 2,000+ days. And PowerArchiver on my virtual machine is nearing 300 days.

I love winscp and it even works on linux under wine.