It’s hard to stay in one place to type this. I’m one of those people who gets leg cramps when I eat bananas after not eating any for a while, instead of the reverse situation, of not getting enough potassium.

Just wanted to share an idea that might help out if you use ftp software frequently. Especially if you have many different locations within your FTP server, where you transfer files.

My own example:

I copy files to a number of different locations on one particular FTP server:


  • public_html//wp-content/themes/current
  • public_html/magpierss
  • public_html/amazonbooks/photos

There’s actually more than that, but you can see it can be tedious to navigate to each folder.

Most people will bother to only set up a default start up profile in WS_FTP, or CuteFtp, or whatever software they use. And they probably configure the profile to automatically log in to their ftp account and start it up usually, in public_html, or httpdocs.

Then you have to navigate to some deep folder in the jungle of folders, where you need to drop a file into.

So the simple solution is to simply create more than one profile, that is usually available in a dropdown list on the interface of the ftp utility.

I created one to land me at / .. / wp-content/themes and I also configured the local folder to start out at c:\blog\themes (not real folder, just example)

I created another one to land me at public_html/amazonbooks/photos. And this particular profile “starts off” the local side to a different folder than c:\blog\themes.

Saves time in two ways. You go directly to the local folder, and to the remote folder that you need to swap files or upload files between.

Yep, obviously, when you’re already logged in to your server doing one thing, and you choose another profile, it will log off all over again, re-display the ftp log-on announcement, and then re-log-on all over again, but this is not a big deal since it gets you to the folders a lot quicker.

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