A good free ftp plugin for Sublimetext 2

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I am new to Sublimetext and wondering what is a good free FTP plugin to use with it. Thought the editor must have something inbuilt in it. I have seen developers use some sort of FTP plugin with it. Feedback appreciated.

I am on a Mac Moutain Lion so respective solutions would be awesome.

Thanks.

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score 72 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 07 '13 at 15:36

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I use the sftp package that does have an unlimited trial that never expires. You will have to put up with the occasional nag screen. Other than that try the ftp package that is listed in the package control. Very basic and free but may do what you want. Here is the link to the site FTPSync on Github so that you can read about it before installing. I have one person in a club I belong to using this ftp code so that when he updates one page each month it auto uploads to the web site. The user does not have to do anything except open Sublime, add the lines he needs to add and save the page and the site is updated.

edited Dec 07 '13 at 15:36

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answered Dec 28 '12 at 06:12

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Your first answer, great! Welcome to StackOverflow. – pal4life Dec 28 '12 at 14:43
This is a good one but now my requirements include SFTP, especially since cloud servers now prefer sftp. So I am marking another one as the answer. Although this should do it in most case. +1 though. – pal4life Jun 09 '14 at 16:20
@pal4life It was his last answer too :-( – I am the Most Stupid Person May 17 '18 at 10:37

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 09 '14 at 16:22

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I've been using SFTP by WBond and I'm fairly happy with it.

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Thanks for this response, my bad, ya updated the question since looking for a free one. – pal4life Sep 23 '12 at 14:49
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It has an indefinite trial, though if you want to keep it free you'll just have to put up with occasional pop-ups, asking you to buy the full version. – Mastergalen Jul 19 '13 at 12:03
This is a very helpful plugin especially with its straightfoward SFTP features which is quite confusing with clients like Filezilla or eclipse even. Thanks. – pal4life Jun 09 '14 at 16:22
With this plugin do you get to just save a file and it gets uploaded right away? – Purefan Sep 09 '14 at 21:11
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@Purefan Yup, every time you save your file it gets pushed to your server. – Jay Jan 20 '15 at 17:48
I was just looking and it seems that you have to store your ftp password as plain text in the config file. Something to know. – sugardaddy Feb 19 '15 at 14:16
If any one cares about an alternative, I started using Fetch as well just for this to securely working with pem keys. – pal4life Feb 19 '15 at 17:03
Tried this, but was hoping for something better for Sublime. Is there an alternative that lets you navigate remote directories and upload files that are not text files? – Henrik Erlandsson Apr 24 '19 at 09:06

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 15 '13 at 09:25

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There are a few programs that allow you to synchronize local and remote directories. Personally I use WinSCP - a very good free FTP client with a lot of features. Synchronization is one of them and it works pretty well.

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I just started using the "keep synchronized" feature about three weeks ago. Works really well. You just have to be careful to do an initial bi-directional "prompted" synchronization first. Otherwise you risk having files deleted off the server that aren't represented locally (meaning the synchronization works... just be sure you're prepared to get what you asked for!). – ChronoFish Jul 14 '16 at 21:01

score 4 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 27 '17 at 17:28

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There is an alternative solution. I use SFTP Net Drive works very well on Windows, (the free version match my needs) then just mount your app folder as any 'normal' folder.

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This sounds good, although I am on a Mac so this does not work for me. – pal4life Jun 13 '13 at 19:30
give a try to Expandrive , but i'm not sure is there a free version : http://www.expandrive.com/expandrive – timmz Jun 13 '13 at 19:41
free for home use is DirectNet Drive [link](http://directnet-drive.net). Fully emulates local disk behavior for the mounted sites with support FTP, WebDAV, SFTP – parts2eu Jan 16 '17 at 21:24

user956584 · Answer 5 · 2016-09-12T18:43:13.767

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You can use eq Webdrive, but better disable indexing files in Sublime, otherwise sublime will be try download/index/list all files from ftp.

Yes you can use other solution but there is nothing better that Notepad++ FTP, so sad

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answered Mar 25 '15 at 20:05

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