Some of the newly introduced features are clearly in response to Interarchy’s competition. INTERARCHY UPDATES UPGRADEIt just so happens that Panic also announced a new major upgrade for Transmit this week. In other words, I am simply rediscovering Interarchy, and finding that, while I had got used to Transmit’s interface, it is not the only possible UI scheme when it comes to FTP applications. They each have their advantages, but I am quickly finding that the multiple-window approach actually better meets my needs. I also really do not mind the use of multiple windows, as opposed to the single-window approach used by Transmit. INTERARCHY UPDATES MAC OSIt has adopted some UI features from Safari and from Mac OS X’s Finder. INTERARCHY UPDATES MAC OS XWhat a pleasant surprise! Interarchy has made great progress in the user interface department and now feels like a true Mac OS X application. Recently, I also started experiencing a significant problem with the Favorites Editor, seemingly caused by some kind of incompatibility between Transmit and the rest of my Mac OS X environment.Īnd then yesterday I read John Gruber’s “ Apps of the Year” article, and discovered that Interarchy had in fact evolved quite a bit since I gave up on it. More importantly, however, I never noticed any improvements, even though Transmit was updated regularly. I tried reporting the problems to Panic a handful of times over the years, and didn’t ever get much in terms of a response. INTERARCHY UPDATES DOWNLOADThe Batch Download feature has interface problems of its own. If you then drag and drop the same file again to initiate a new upload, Transmit actually adds the new request after the queue and starts attempting to complete the initial download again. For example, if an upload fails, the upload stays in the queue with a failed flag. I still like its interface - but over that period I have also encountered a number of interface issues, especially regarding what happens to the uploading/downloading queue when there is some kind of connection failure. I have been using Transmit for a couple of years now. It was reasonably priced and it was clearly a Mac OS X application, built from scratch in the Cocoa environment, with the expected customizable toolbar, etc. I felt increasingly frustrated with the interface.Īt some point, I simply gave up on the application, which no longer felt like a Mac OS X application to me, and I switched to Panic Software’s Transmit. Then over the next few years Interarchy evolved in all kinds of strange directions, including, at some point, the use of “skins” to customize the interface, and also the introduction of features that were far too advanced to be of significant interest to me, on my pokey dial-up connection.ĭuring that period, Apple fine-tuned the Mac OS X interface quite considerably - and unfortunately it looked like Interarchy was doing nothing to follow Apple’s lead in that area. Interarchy felt a bit too much like a Mac OS 9 application with a coat of Mac OS X paint at the time - but at least it was working, and its interface was reasonably familiar and straightforward to me. Some of the other applications I tried simply didn’t work with some of the FTP servers that I had to use, and some of them simply had an interface that was too foreign to a long-time Mac user like me (probably because they came from the NeXT world). I experimented with various freeware and shareware applications that were available at the time, and ended up deciding to purchase Interarchy 4.0. It’s funny how you get used to a particular interface.īack in 2000, when I made the transition to Mac OS X, I had to find an FTP application to replace my trusty old Fetch application, which was Classic-only at the time.
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