Transmit lets you select any file and change the storage class, but you can’t select multiple files and change that property all at once. (Some cloud services only expose certain features via an API, requiring third-party software to manage.)įor example, Amazon S3 offers different tiers of storage, from frequently used files that are modestly priced to store but cheap to transfer, to seldom-used items that are cheap to store and relatively expensive to transfer. With cloud-based servers that offer a variety of access and storage policies, Transmit 5 exposes different and useful controls that otherwise require using a control panel at the cloud-service site, if it’s even available. You drag files in or out of that pane, delete them, or rename them. In the simplest use of Transmit, you connect to a remote server (more on that in a bit) in either or both the lefthand and righthand side of a transfer window. Transmit offers a crisp way to connect to servers or load local files. (That app was released first in 2014 and Panic has regularly updated it since.) The interface has a refreshing new look that adopts and extends the style of the Transmit iOS app. It also offers a modestly featured synchronization option, and an option to mount certain kinds of servers and services as Finder volumes. You can copy files either to and from your Mac or between servers or services you bring up in side-by-side windows.

Transmit lets you connect your Mac via several internet file-exchange protocols and to most cloud-storage services. So many companies offer cloud-based storage and sync that you may be drowning in a multiplicity of options.

But our need to shift files around among servers we control or those run by others hasn’t decreased a bit. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is one of the oldest of the internet’s standards, and it’s still in broad use. File-transfer programs seem like a vestige of the internet that once was.

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