FireFTP and Omeka

I love FireFTP (I did donate), but recently this convienent little tool cost me quite a bit of time.

Trying to upgrade an Omeka installation with large, deep directory folders, I didn't notice that apparently FireFTP just gets tired and skips files, but continues on so you don't notice. Spent more hours than I care to tell debugging what was just missing modules.

My bad, not checking the logs, but rather than be paranoid, I'll just try to remember to use FileZilla when it's gotta be right.

Update 8/16/2009:
Oh, now I remember what I don't like about Filezilla...it acts very weird about .htaccess files. Recently I uploaded a directory using it and it all uploaded fine, except for the critical .htaccess file.

When I google around about this, the top forums claim that the .htaccess is just not showing or "hidden". But this was not so in my case unless "hidden" also means "not working". As soon as I uploaded the .htaccess using FireFTP, the site began working properly.

So, pick your free file transfer program poision. Then again...hey, wadda ya want for free?