Goodbye WS_FTP, Hello WinSCP! »
It's been a long time coming, but I've finally decided to give up on WS_FTP. It started when I kept running into the Failed to Load OpenPGP Keys from Keyrings message last year. It isn't a bad message, it's just one of those things that really irritates me. It came up every time I started the software and I couldn't get rid of it. Then it went away and I forgot about it, but I would remember it every time I went to start up again. I would dread starting the application. It's a shame, really, because I had been using the software for a really long time.
Even though I found a solution to the problem, it had become time to move on. I had just grown up from the simplistic software that had carried me for so long, and it was time to find a new utility for my FTP needs. More importantly than the message that had dogged me for months and months was the fact that FTP was born of a time when I didn't really care - or really think - about security, and now I tend to think about it all the time. So I wanted to approach it from that angle instead.
