FTP Voyager

FTP Voyager is an FTP/FTPS

FTPS

FTPS is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol that adds support for the Transport Layer Security and the Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic protocols....

/SFTP

SSH file transfer protocol

In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality over any reliable data stream...

 client for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 with support for the following features:

• FTP/FTPS/SFTP protocols
• Directory synchronization
• Use of multiple file transfer threads
• File searching
• Custom FTP commands
• File transfer queueing
• Proxy server support
• Customizable UI
• Automatic name conversion during transfers
• "Live" file editing
• ZLIB compression

FTP Voyager Scheduler

FTP Voyager includes a component called FTP Voyager Scheduler which allows for various actions to be scheduled:

• Uploads
• Downloads
• Synchronizations (Local/Remote)
• File move operations (move up, move down)
• External batch operations

History

FTP Voyager began as an ActiveX

ActiveX

ActiveX is a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language-independent way. Software applications can then be composed from one or more of these components in order to provide their functionality....

 project by Mark Peterson known as "FTPTree". Originally intended to work as an in-browser FTP client, it developed into an independent graphical application to fill the need to be able to use FTP as easily as Windows Explorer. It was first released in January 1997, and quickly took on the appearance of the Windows 95

Windows 95

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 Windows Explorer

Windows Explorer

This article is about the Windows file system browser. For the similarly named web browser, see Internet ExplorerWindows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface...

. Ongoing development has added features like synchronization, customizable UI, FTP Voyager Scheduler, thumbnail support and more.

FTP Voyager was the winner of the Software Industry's "Best Internet Enhancement" award from 2000-2007 and again in 2010.

External links

• Official website