If you’ve ever watched an e-mail application choke on a 4MB attachment, you know that sometimes you need an alternative to directly sending or receiving files. And if you’ve ever e-mailed a crucial ...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS. There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two ...

Last week’s README file demonstrated how easy it is to turn virtually any desktop machine into an SFTP server. Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using ...

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

Reader Gregg Andrews has an iOS device here and files there and wonders how to bring the two together. He writes: My company keeps a lot of work files on an FTP server. When I travel I’d like to take ...