CuteFTP v4 User’s GuideSite Manager SettingsUsers may set each of the following settings when editing a site:HOST TYPE. B y default, CuteFTP will automatically detect which type of server (host) it is connecting to. Use the drop down menu toselect a server type if problems occur connecting to a specific host.DEFAULT REMOTE DIRECTORY/ DEFAULT LOCAL DIRECTORY. Specify the initial remote/local directory (path). SITE COMMENTS. Use this field to type comments about the FTP site. Has no effect on connection to the site. ENABLE FILTER. Activates Filtering. Click Filter... to edit defined filters. See Filtering Files & Folders for more information. PASV MODE. CuteFTP uses PASV Mode to initiate all connections while the server only waits for requests. When active, this feature helps avoid conflicts with the security system. This feature defaults to not active and should only be used when experiencing problems with the default settings. USE FIREWALL. This field is active by default and tells CuteFTP to use the settings defined in the Firewall section of the Edit/ Settings window. CONNECTION RETRIES/DELAY BETWEEN RETRIES. The Connection Retries field specifies how many times CuteFTP should attempt to connect to the server. The Delay between retries field tells CuteFTP how long to wait after an unsuccessful attempt before trying to reconnect. USE AUTORENAME SCHEME. Inactive by default, this feature may be used to rename file extensions before uploading to the server. This feature is helpful if the extension on the local side is different than the extension required by the server or remote side. Refer to the Automatically Renaming Transferred Files section for more details. PRESERVE CASE, FORCE UPPERCASE, FORCE LOWERCASE. CuteFTP can “force” a file to upload in lower, upper, o r preserved case. This is helpful if you created files with mixed case on your system, but need them to be upper or lower case on your server. MAX SAFE INDEX SIZE. This field specifies the size (in kilobytes) of the largest index file to load without prompting. Setting this parameter to zero will cause CuteFTP to prompt you for all index files whereas setting it to 32000 effectively disables any prompting. It is not advisable to set this parameter too high because there might be multi-directory index files on the sites that CuteFTP can’t handle. The default is 10 kilobytes. AUTO-CACHE INDEX FILES. Active by default, CuteFTP searches for index files and automatically loads them in memory. SIMPLE DIRECTORY LISTING. CuteFTP will display file names only in directory listing. ENABLE SMART KEEP ALIVE. Check to have Smart Keep Alive maintain a connection automatically. Refer to the Smart Keep Alivesection for more details.5
