FTPie 2026.11.2 is mostly about speed. Folders of small files go up to four times faster over SFTP and twice as fast over FTP, a 50,000-file folder on a distant server opens in seconds, and tens of thousands of files go to your PC at the same pace from the first file to the last. It also adds permissions for FTP and SFTP servers, and a This PC laid out the way File Explorer has it. Below is what changed, with the measurements.
Small files over SFTP, FTP and FTPS
For a small file the network barely matters. What costs time is waiting for the server to answer each step. FTPie used to make six round trips per file over SFTP and eight over FTP. It now makes two and four, and sends them together. On a local network the time went elsewhere: every file waited its turn to update FTPie's own record of what it had listed, about 30 ms a file on any protocol. That wait is gone too.
These are uploads of 1,000 small files over a simulated line. Each figure is the median of several runs, measured on the release build, and every run on the new code arrived intact, checked by SHA-256:
| 1,000 small files | 2026.11.1 | 2026.11.2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SFTP, a distant server (40 ms, 100 Mbit/s) | 97.2 s | 24.5 s | 4.0× |
| FTP, a distant server | 113.9 s | 55.8 s | 2.0× |
| FTPS, a distant server | 139.1 s | 80.1 s | 1.7× |
| SFTP, a local network or NAS | 31.5 s | 4.9 s | 6.4× |
| FTP, a local network or NAS | 38.5 s | 9.3 s | 4.1× |
| FTPS, a local network or NAS | 37.0 s | 9.5 s | 3.9× |
Downloads gain too: 1,000 small files from the same distant SFTP server took 54.9 s and now take 27.7 s.
Big files, dropped connections, and file dates
- Big SFTP uploads go at the speed of your line. Each 32 KB block used to wait for the server's reply, so distance set the speed. Three 1 GB files over the 40 ms line took 18 minutes 44 seconds. They now take about 4 minutes 20 seconds, which is all a 100 Mbit/s line can carry.
- A dropped connection no longer ends a transfer. SFTP, FTP, FTPS, Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox wait up to two minutes for the connection to come back, then carry on. In a test that cut the line for 10 seconds partway through three 1 GB uploads, no SFTP run survived on 2026.11.1 (0 of 3). Now every run did: 12 of 12 over SFTP, 5 of 5 over FTP and 2 of 2 over FTPS.
- Uploads to OneDrive are up to twice as fast. Files up to 250 MB go in one piece instead of in chunks. On a slow or metered connection, Settings → Transfers → Upload big files in chunks brings chunks back, so less is sent twice after a drop.
- Files keep their dates. SFTP and FTP uploads, and downloads to your PC, keep the file's original date, not the time of the transfer. It is on by default, and you can turn it off in Settings → Transfers.
Big folders and thousands of files
- A 50,000-file folder on a distant SFTP server opens in seconds. Reading it took 29.4 s in 2026.11.1 and takes 1.6 s now. The whole folder is on screen in 2.4 s, and the window never waited more than 0.4 s while it loaded.
- Thousands of files to your PC no longer slow down. Each file copied to a disk on your PC used to cost a little more than the one before. A backup of 70,000 small files to a folder on this PC took 23 min 40 s, and now takes 26 s.
- 70,000 files downloaded from an SFTP server arrive at 250 to 320 files a second from the first tenth to the last, all identical to the originals. In the release build, with the 70,000 files dragged from SFTP onto This PC, the window kept answering within a median of 4 ms, and folders on This PC still opened in under 0.1 s afterwards.
- Replacing files on servers and cloud storage no longer slows down over time. A Replace, or renaming or deleting a folder, read FTPie's whole record of that storage: about two seconds a file once it held a few hundred thousand items. It now reads only what it changes.
- Copies on your PC show how far they are, and can be stopped, and moving a folder to another drive works. It failed with "Source and destination path must have identical roots". A big folder or a USB disk that has gone to sleep no longer freezes the window while it loads.
Permissions on FTP and SFTP servers
Right-click files or folders on an FTP, FTPS or SFTP server and choose Permissions…. Set read, write and execute for the owner, the group and others with the boxes, or type the number, such as 644, or 600 for wp-config.php on a WordPress site. For a folder you can apply the same to everything inside it, or only to the files or only to the folders in it.
Select several items, and a box where they differ shows as mixed and stays as each item has it unless you change it. If the server refuses a change, FTPie names the file and carries on with the rest. A file's details show its permissions too, such as 644 (rw-r--r--). Servers on Windows usually have no such permissions, so there is nothing to show.
This PC
My Computer is now This PC, laid out the way File Explorer has it: Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos first, then your disks and USB drives, then your mapped network drives, each under its own heading, in the folder tree too.
Backups and restores
FTPie's backups run on the same engine as BackupKit, and got the same work. A backup of 176,472 files (19.6 GB) from one hard drive to itself took 38 min 15 s, against 43 min 29 s for Windows' own robocopy on the same files and disk. Its restore took 57 min 28 s, and every file matched the original by SHA-256. A restore that runs into a problem now keeps what came back, and a restore to the original folder keeps the files you have added since.
Fixes worth a line each
- Pausing and resuming a transfer straight away no longer loses a file. In a move, a file could end up cut off on the server and gone from your PC.
- A stopped upload no longer leaves a broken file on your FTP or SFTP server. Close the stopped transfer and FTPie removes the part it wrote. Pause still keeps it, so Resume can carry on from it.
- Stopping an FTP transfer no longer breaks the connection with "Malformed PASV response" until a restart.
- The editor no longer loses what you type during a save, and neither do Word, Excel and PowerPoint files edited online through Microsoft 365.
- Names sort the way File Explorer sorts them: "No. 2" now comes before "No. 10".
- One folder that can't be read no longer stops a whole transfer or backup, and paths of exactly 258 or 259 characters no longer end one.
- FTPie no longer piles up Windows handles. After 8 hours, one running FTPie held about 29,000 of them.
- Sharing speaks your language: FTPie links, Shared links and FTPie mail are in all of FTPie's languages. Upload and Transfer also finish in split view, and FTPie started from a command prompt or a script comes up complete.
Get it
FTPie updates itself, so you may already be on 2026.11.2: check Settings → About. If not, download it here; it installs over your existing copy and keeps your storages and settings. The full release notes list every change.
