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| No one else seems to be having this problem so here goes.
I am using Home 2007 on a wireless/microwave hybrid connection that drops every half an hour (there is nothing that can be done about this).
I have "Automatically resume transfers when application starts" selected and retries maxed out. That's the closest thing I can find to an automatic resume option. But when I do this, it starts overwriting the file it already started uploading.
So if I set it and go to bed, it writes the same bits of information over and over for the next 6 hours and never finishes the file. I have tried at three sites (lulu.com, archive.org and my own site) with the same result.
UNLESS I choose to prompt before overwriting, in which case I have to come back to the computer and press "resume" every half hour. The files are complete when I'm done, but it shouldn't take me 9 days to upload a file that's supposed to take 18 hours.
Since no one else seems to have this trouble I suspect I'm missing something obvious, but I've looked at every inch of the program and help files and I don't see anything that tells me what I'm doing wrong.
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| You're not alone on this.
I'm having the same problem with a Kiss video recorder device that chokes regularly breaking the link. The video files average 4Gb in size so for a single file it chokes many times.
I've configured the auto-retry option but as for you I must stay near the computer in order to click on the resume option when the download retry dialog box is displayed.
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| Thank you, gualo, it's good to know I wasn't the only one!
I did find a solution, but only after giving up and switching to Filezilla. I don't like to uninstall programs I paid for-- especially as WSFTP Home and Pro have served me well for a few years and I prefer to stick with companies I like when I find them-- but the files I need to send have grown and I need something that can resume a broken connection while I sleep.
In Filezilla I just pick resume from the menu and walk away. If there are "too many retries" in bad weather I just have to process the queue again and it starts where it left off. It would be nice if WSFTP had that, but if it does I haven't found anyone who knows how to enable it.
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| anybody from Ipswitch here?
I'd like to know if this is already possible or if there is any plans to add this option in a future release.
Thanks
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| We are looking into this issue - sounds like some additional options to the auto resume or auto retry may help these use cases you mentioned. bye for now,
Kevin R Gillis
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| | lokitthecatfromhell (interesting login name), you're definitely not the only customer having an ussue with this. Thanks for bringing it up. I consider automatic resume an essential capability and it should be available for the active session not only be after a restart of WS FTP. Currently WS FTP will prompt to ask if you want to overwrite or resume and I see no way to tell it to always automatically resume. What good is automatic resume if you come back hours later to find the transfer is either starting from the beginning over and over again (overwrite) or sitting idle the entire time waiting for human input? It's amost a year since IPswitch said they would look into this and it still hasn't been addressed in the latest version as far as I can tell. |
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