RBrowser for Mac

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• Amazing product.

  schultz3March 29, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />My last entry was a comment and I really meant to give a rating. So... read last comment and here is my rating. This is the only product where I could use ssh routing through an ssh proxy.

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• RBrowser LIVES!!

  anon7March 3, 2007

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've used RBrowser for many years, it is the 2nd most vital tool in my box -- second only to my [insert your favorite content editor here]. It's the most capable and complete program I've _ever_ used for maintaining files on remote machines. It's ability to connect via many different methods to many different servers with a consistant interface approaches perfection. If you read no futher then take this as an enthusiasticly positive review. As an invisible helper giving me local access to any remote file I require I had become dependent upon it without appreciating it. When the old version I had been using expired this spring I was destroyed. I was cutoff from my remote world as effectively as if I had lost broadband, my access was slowed to a modem-like crawl as I scp'd files back and forth. I was hamstrung at it's loss, my productivity plummeted. Technically speaking: I'd been locked into an older version due to issues with my company's admin's refusal to upgrade their remote servers' software versions and their ssh support past 1999 levels. As RBrowser had evolved it's remote shell requirements had gone beyond the badly broken [redhat 7.2] support, I'd stopped upgrading my copy of RBrowser and it had become a transparent extension of my text editor. RBrowser had become a perfect tool, one I'd forgotten I was even using. How rude my awakening. I suffered nearly two weeks of hideously slow access to my remote filebases before requesting assistance from the developer. Hours after I bemoaned my plight the developer came to my rescue! (As he always has, I shouldn't have waited so long to ask him.) He provided me with a user-level patch to apply on the remote server that not only restored my access but allowed me to upgrade to the most recent RBrowser! I was restored and newly invigorated -- the new sync options are fantastic for snapshotting remote codebases! I can't tell you how to do your work, but I can give you a recommendation as a developer and consultant since the '70s -- if you have to access files on remote servers RBrowser cannot be beat! I have found no more perfect method of remote file access anywhere! For those unsure as to it's action: RBrowser steps in between all your favorite programs and the remote files you use: from SimpleText to Photoshop and beyond. If your program loads and saves files then RBrowser instantly allows you to load and save files on any remote server as if the file were local to your machine. The download/load/edit/save/upload cycle is shortened to load/edit/save. Every time you save your changes they are cached and then uploaded in the background while you race ahead, there is not a wasted second. Your local hard disk is extended as far as your remote access can see. Having suffered the loss and the restored productivity boost of removing the need to manually download&amp;upload the files I edit I can only say: avoid RBrowser at all costs -- especially if you bill your benefactors for every minute lost. however, should the embedded sarcasm be too subtle for you, the blessing is simple: give RBrowser a try, every minute you give it is given back to you. Al; .

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• buggy - mysterious hangs

  dnedvedJuly 30, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I needed a quick utility to do a recursive FTP of my website off my old provider. I love FUGU for SSH based transfers but needed something to handle just plain FTP. Tried this tool out. Granted I have several thousand small files to transfer, but copying an entire tree down is something other users say they use this utility for so I wouldn't have expected it to choke. It gets a few hundred files into the transfer and randomly hangs every time on a different small file. With crippleware where the portion they let you use for free doesn't even work properly, makes you wonder about all the fancy features they save for registered customers. Not going to find out though!

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• TOO HAPPY !!! He is the Lucky Luke of tech support...

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionFebruary 1, 2006

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  ......<br />This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I just had a problem (I though it was a bug), so I send this to Robert Vasvari at 9:35 pm from france : Hello, I can't transfer or delete file named with accent inside. Nevertheless, Thank you for this good software. He answered me at 10:44 pm from somewhere in the world : Be sure to set the characterset in for this site in the preferences panel. Then, it might work. This guy is too quick, so I answer him : Yes you are right, I change (western windows latin1) for this site and it's OK. Before I changed in general preferences, not oK :-) Thank you very much for this so quick answer, You are the Lucky Luke of mail answering. It's great to have good and attentive developer on Mac OS X.

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• Smooth update

  JuicyJanuary 22, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Works great here. Thanks for the folder sync fix! One request: alter the file exclusion to handle rsync-like exclusion paths ala "/foo/bar". Can't figure out how to accomplish branch exclusion with current sync tool. Last, not to knock the others, but for those of us who need the features, nothing else does everything RBrowser does. Truly examine RBrowser before posting come-ons for other tools.

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• Indispensable

  JuicyNovember 23, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Works great here (I use it primarily for SFTP, its BBEdit integration, and rsync interface). Another smooth update. No complaints. -B...

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• disappointed

  a9226399October 6, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />i am really disappointed. this app is now around for a long time and today wasted my time by ARBITRARY NOT applying permissions to certain files. no error message about this and a non working confusing permission display in the UI. i am not complaining about the retarded os9 like interface, i could live with that, although it really is not very intuitive, but i my opinion a stable basic functionality or - at least an error message - is something one could expect from a software that is not beta. if anyone could recommend a free ftp app for macosx that does the job, i would appreciate it.

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• Major backward step, unfortunately

  kaydeebian_dotmacAugust 9, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've been using RBrowser Lite for quite a while now. "Upgraded" to the latest V4 release, and now RBrowser can not even connect to the FTP sites to which I upload - this is the case for every single site I use, it fails to establish a connection. RBrowser Lite still connects perfectly. I guess I'll stick with Lite for now, sadly.

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• Keep it up

  August 8, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great update, works like a champ.

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• Excellent Support

  MachoMan XJune 28, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Well, Robert came to the rescue for me. The latest build kept quiting on start-up. I emailed the developer and within minutes he was on the task of correcting the issue. I'll most definitely purchase a license. Thanks RBrowser.com :)

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