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If you use SFTP, you can also issue SSH commands, such as expanding an archive or creating an archive of files. There are improvements to the Amazon S3 support, including CloudFront support. The Cover Flow view for files, and the ability to switch panes from local to remote with a simple button click.The integrated transfer window that can be pulled up over the file listing (rather than as a separate queue-style window).The ability to use Quick Look on remote files.T3's pull down for FTP transcripts versus T4's separate window.Some of the GUI refinements that really bring Transmit up to speed with the current OS X interface include subtle things like:

First off, the GUI looks much more modern than the aging T3 interface. Since the speed increase is woefully underwhelming, at least there are a number of other features that really make T4 a compelling upgrade. Unfortunately, I had no real way to test via regular FTP since I refuse to use unsecured FTP for anything other than downloading files. That means that according to their site, the upload in T4 should have taken about 2 minutes (however, this may be due to using SFTP versus regular FTP, or perhaps version 4.0.2 has a bug in it). I didn't experience the 25x speed increase whatsoever, and yet the speed for T3 is very close to what was shown on their site. T4, on the other hand, took 41.5 minutes to upload all 14000 files, and 13 minutes to delete them. It took T3 42.5 minutes to upload all of the files, and 15.5 minutes to delete them. This meant that there was no parallel uploading taking place only one connection to the server was initiated. The immediate thing I noticed was that by dragging the top-level folder as one item in T3, it was treated as one item for the queue. To test, I created 14014 5-byte files across 14 directories, and uploaded the top-level directory. So the real test then is to upload a lot of little files to see how well T4 works compared to T3. With Transmit 3 (T3) you can tell it to queue files to transfer, and the default there is two simultaneous transfers. Looking in the T4 preferences, there is a Transfers section where you can throttle upload and download speeds and specify the number of transfers done simultaneously (five, by default). Uploading a 14MB zip archive to my Web host using SFTP took the same amount of time as previous versions, so the speed gains are in how Transmit handles and queues FTP commands. Of course, how many people will be uploading or downloading thousands of small files at one time? Testing the speed gains of T4 It claims that listing 30,000 remote files is 4x faster, that downloading 30,000 small files is 18x faster, deleting 30,000 small files is 2.25x faster, and uploading 15,000 small files is 25x faster. One of the features that Transmit 4 (T4 from this point forward) boasts over previous versions is a serious speed increase.

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But is the upgrade worth it? Transmit 3 is a solid FTP client, supporting FTP, FTP with SSL, SFTP, WebDav, and Amazon S3.

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Because of that length of time, a paid upgrade to version 4.0 is quite reasonable ($30 for five years of software usage is pretty good value, after all). As far as I am concerned, Transmit is one of the best FTP clients for OS X I've been using it for the last five years. Panic recently released a new major version of Transmit, over five years since version 3.0 was released.