Troubleshooting 

S

OLUTION

: 

From the menu, choose Tools > Global Options > Transfer > Smart Overwrite > 

Advanced Options. Clear the check in Use SIZE and MDTM commands to gather 

precise details. 

Site to site transfer limitations 

You can connect to two servers and transfer files between them using FXP (File eXchange 

Protocol). FXP lets you copy files from one FTP server to another. CuteFTP Professional 

supports this mechanism for transferring files between sites. 

When you transfer files between two remote hosts using an FXP client, the maximum 

transfer speed does not depend on your connection but only on the connection between the 

two hosts, which is usually much faster than your own connection. Because it is a direct 

connection you will not be able to see the progress or the transfer speed of the files. 

Although FXPing is very easy, there are a few restrictions to transferring the files. Both hosts 

have to support PASV mode and must allow PORT commands to foreign hosts. The FXP 

client tells the destination FTP server to listen for a connection by sending a "PASV" 

command. The source FTP server then connects to the data port reported by the destination 

server (after a successful PASV command) All the data then goes directly from the source to 

the destination server and both servers only report fail/success messages to the FTP client. 

High memory usage 

If CuteFTP (specifically its Transfer Engine) is working for extended periods of time, it may 

begin to consume large amounts of system resources (memory and hard drive space) due to 

log and queue requirements.  

You can set CuteFTP to remove successful items from the queue to help alleviate this 

problem.   

T

O REMOVE SUCCESSFUL ITEMS FROM THE QUEUE 

1.  From the menu, choose Tools > Global Options > Transfer > Events. 

2. Select 

Navigation Settings. 

3. Select 

the 

Remove successfully finished items from the queue automatically 

check box.  

4. Select 

OK.  

C

ONFIGURATION 

N

OTES

Successful items are removed even if tasks were run without the user interface open. 

Each finished queue item takes up about 500 bytes of memory until the Transfer 

Engine is closed. 

Turn off logging to further improve resource management. 

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