NetFAQs: Macintosh - FTP Clients

Configuring Fetch 3.0.1 (Mac FTP Utility)

The main FTP (file transfer protocol) utility for Macintosh is Fetch 3.0.1. Once installed, you can find it in the Mac Hard Disk in the Internet Applications folder as shown below. You can double-click it open from there or you can create a shortcut (called an "alias") on the desktop. <next: creating a desktop shortcut>

To create a Fetch shortcut on the desktop, highlight the Fetch program in the Hard Disk's Internet Applications folder then click the file menu and choose "make alias" as shown below.

This will create an alias as shown below. Drag & drop it to the desktop. <next: configuring Fetch>

Open Fetch by double-clicking its desktop alias or the program in the Internet Applications folder of the Hard Disk. Ordinarily, Fetch will pop-up into a "new connection" window that remembers its last settings as shown below. However, the first time that you use Fetch, you will need to create that connection.

Click the file menu then choose "new connection" as shown below. This will cause the connection window to pop-up if it doesn't come up automatically.

Plug-in the ftp host address, username and password then click "OK" to connect.

The "Host" box needs the ftp host address. It always follows this format: users.ispname.com. You also need to put in your username and password. This is just your standard Internet login including the @ispname.com part. Leave the "Directory" box blank. You will get put on the right path when the username and password get accepted by the computer system. Be sure to login with the same username (including the @ispname.com domain tail) that you use to connect to the Internet.

A successful connection will result in a screen similar to the following one. <next: moving files>

You can drag & drop files and directories directly to/from the Fetch FTP window to the desktop and vice versa.