Binary Nights Puts Mac File-Transfer App ForkLift On Sale for $0.99

Question:

What will happen to it on June 1st, when App Sandboxing is officially the rule?

Is this just a big bang to go out on before Apple shuts them down for not complying with the sandboxing requirement?

(Although between you and me, it already is the rule. I submitted an update to Apple May 2nd. On May 7th, they told me it was in review. It's over two weeks later, and I haven't heard a peep from them. My app isn't that complicated... if they wanted to verify it makes battery predictions accurately, they'd know within a week of starting the review. I suspect their plan is to just wait until June 1st, then tell me it's rejected on account of not being sandboxed. Oh well, I'm nearly done with sandboxing it anyways, so I'll probably just withdraw the update they're "reviewing" now and submit a sandboxed version on Monday.)

That's what I asked too, but no one replied. :(

I own both, though I use an older version of Forklift since I'm on 10.6. I like Transmit better as an FTP/scp/SFTP client, but as a file manager, I like Forklift better. The dual pane mode on Forklift, to me, is better than Transmit. Transmit, however, is insanely fast for remote connections - I'd say faster than Forklift, but I haven't run lab-like tests to give you exact numbers. But for local use, Forklift is like Finder for power users. At least that is how I use it.

I have a 10.7 laptop, so I purchased 2.5 from the MAS and will check it out more this week. 2.0.x still runs on 10.6, but 2.5, from the new feature list, does look like it should have been named 3.0 instead. Impressive that it is a free upgrade [and yes, i know i could have copied my 2.0.x from my 10.6 system to my 10.7 and ran the auto-update feature to get 2.5, but since I now have licenses for both the MAS and non-MAS versions, it will be easy for me to see differences in the two as sandboxing is enabled for future MAS versions of the app; for 99c it was a no brainer :) ].

How is this compared to Transmit 4 (http://panic.com/transmit/)? Besides the difference in price?

You need access to a Mac that has Snow Leopard installed on it. Log in with your Apple ID, purchase, log out, delete app if needed. Then once you get your own Mac, log in to the app store and redownload. Voila.

I have Snow Leopard, and I can't even download the thing. I just get a dialog box saying it requires Lion. This is going to happen more and more often to people who stick with Snow Leopard like me.

Finder does have a path bar, actually

Picked it up and now Finder annoys me more and more…Just some simple functions such as dual panels and path bars should be in Finder.

Just pointing out that Finder does have a path bar; View > Show Path Bar. You can drag & drop to the path bar, also double clicking an icon in the path bar changes to that folder.

Question:

What will happen to it on June 1st, when App Sandboxing is officially the rule?

Is this just a big bang to go out on before Apple shuts them down for not complying with the sandboxing requirement?

Another question: If this (version of this) app is removed from the MAS for whatever-sandboxing-reason, will we still be able to get updates (through the MAS or within the app itself)? Or will it simply become a dead version (as in "unsupported")?

I know .99$ is not a big deal even if this version get left in the water but still, I'm wandering...

69p well spent for the surprisingly powerful rename function alone.

Hope the sale is still ongoing tonight when I get to my home mac. My work mac only has Snow Leopard and won't let me buy it. :(

I tested it against Transmit 4 on my lab's server... Virtually identical speeds most of the time. For smaller files it's actually faster than Transmit that, on the other hand, was a liiittle faster with bigger files. Sorry I forgot to take note about the raw numbers, etc.

Considering all the features (syncing folders, mount on desktop, etc), I think it's a steal for 0.99, definitely purchased it. Funny thing, I almost paid the full 30 dollars a week ago... Lucky me. :-)

Oh, and both Transmit 4 and Forklift 2.5 blew Cyberduck out of the water, haha. :D

I don't currently do much FTPing so is this app a worthy Finder replacement? I know TotalFinder is better in this regard but that's $18. Since this is only $1 today I'm wondering if it's worth my time in this regard or will it be an unnecessary waste of time? Also does it have a large memory footprint? Thanks.

-PN