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Saturday, September 12, 2009

WinSCP

WinSCP is the perfect windows tool to connect to remote servers and exchange (download/upload) files or edit them. It is a SFTP and FTP client.

There is a standalone version and an installer based setup; if using the latter, beware that it will ask you install additional software using the OpenCandy system. However at least the default is not to install any additional software.

I like to store the preferences in ini file instead of the registry, so that I can export them easily to other computers. To turn on the ini preferences storage: in WinSCP login dialog select "preferences", then "Other general options: Preferences", "Storage" and change the "configuration storage" value to "INI file". The default location of the ini file under Windows Vista will be: "C:\Users\\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\WinSCP". Under older Windows version it will be directly in the application directory (C:\program files\WinSCP).

Version: 4.2.3 beta (August 18, 2009)
Platform: Windows
License: freeware

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Former molecular biologist and web developer (Rails) and currently research scientist in bioinformatics.