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I use Notepad++ for more than 2 years now, and there's only 1 thing that it needs for me to be perfect: a actually-working-ftp-plugin.
It has an FTP plugin, written by someone that meanwhile left the project (by meanwhile I mean a long time ago), and since then nobody had courage to improve it. The problem is that it does't handle connections very well. Sometimes it lost connection with the server and literally "blocks", others don't save the files properly, other only load half of the FTP files, etc etc ..
My question is: Is there a way to use FTP and Notepad++ (without using its build-in FTP or a FTP client like FileZilla)?
I've tried using NetDrive, but it gets stuck sometimes (makes the editor crash), and everytime the temporary file is refreshed by windows / NetDrive, it will load the new file without asking and skip the pointer to the end of the file (very very very annoying).
In case you know how to make the built-in notepad++ ftp plugin work at 100%, I'd be much more happy!
I'd like to have some feedback from you guys :)
(I'm using Windows Vista)
Thanks in advance!
What OS do you use? Did you ever had problems with FTP Synchronize? Also, FTPExplorer from the link you provided only have the files before compilation. – yoda – 2009-09-27T13:57:26.800
FTP Sync. isn't perfect, but it's fairly close. I've lost files with it before, so be careful with your backups (I say lost, it was thankfully still in my cache, but it was a lesson) – Phoshi – 2009-09-27T14:00:58.307
That's exacly that "perfection" that is missing. I loose many files, and get many problems with it. What I want to know is a way to have a ftp plugin / other sollution that works fine. If that implies changing OS, so be it (I'm using VIsta by the way) – yoda – 2009-09-27T14:11:37.120
I'm on Vista too, and my problems are very rare. Perhaps it's a settings thing, have you tried running portable npad++ with it for a while? – Phoshi – 2009-09-27T14:34:15.850
No, but I'll try it out and leave feedback latter. – yoda – 2009-09-27T14:37:58.717
Didn't took much time. One of the portable versions of Notepad++ doesn't even works, and the other doesn't let me use FTP Sync. – yoda – 2009-09-27T14:58:15.983