I use Filezilla to do my FTP duties and I’m unable to copy files without making a copy to the my local computer.
I doubt Filezilla is bad software. Is this just an inherent quality of FTP?
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I use Filezilla to do my FTP duties and I’m unable to copy files without making a copy to the my local computer.
I doubt Filezilla is bad software. Is this just an inherent quality of FTP?
The FTP Protocol does not define a “copy” command.
If your FTP client has a copy command, then it has to implement this itself using what’s available through FTP. This works out to something like: GET/RETR , CWD , PUT/STOR .
Some FTP servers will implement proprietary extensions and offer a command like COPY. A client may or may not choose to implement these, in which case it doesn’t involve a local file copy.