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v40 Migration Guide

1. Connect to your FTP server

• Automatic Connection - Automatically connecting to an FTP/FTPS server by detecting correct connection settings.

• Automatic Reconnection - Automatically re-connecting to an FTP/FTPS server when the connection is lost.

• FTP Connection - Manually connecting to an FTP/FTPS server.

• FTPS Proxies - Connecting to an FTP/FTPS server through a Proxy.

• Custom Servers - How to handle custom FTP servers which behave differently.

2. Perform FTP commands

• Server Information - Getting info about your server, its OS, etc

• Directory Listing - Getting a list of files inside a directory

• Directory Transfer - Uploading or downloading an entire directory

• Rules - Only transfer files matching these rules, or blacklist files matching them

• File Transfer - Uploading or downloading a single file

• File Management - Creating directories, renaming/moving files, etc

• File Permissions - Get the permissions/CHMOD of a file

• File Hashing - Hashing and CRC checks to validate file transfers

• IBM z/OS and OS/400 - Special API to work with IBM file systems

• FXP Server To Server - Directly transfer files from one FTP server to another

• Timezone Conversion - Controls how FTP timestamps are converted

• Noop - Controls how the FTP NOOP commands are sent to the server

3. Logging and troubleshooting

• Logging - Logging for debugging or production use

• Troubleshooting - Common issues and how to fix them

• Commonly asked questions - Issues that have already been solved.

• Timeouts - Modifying the default timeouts for FTP operations

• Path Utilities - Methods to work with FTP file and folder paths

• FTP Support Table - The FTP commands supported by FluentFTP

4. Testing and contributing

• Automated Testing - How to run the automated test suite and supported servers

• Contributing - FAQs on using Github and creating pull requests

• Future Plans - Important features that are planned for future releases

• Notes - Old notes and info

5. API documentation

• Classes - All the API classes in FluentFTP

• Methods - All the API methods in FluentFTP.FtpClient

• Enums - All the API enums in FluentFTP

• Powershell Guide - How to use FluentFTP from your Powershell scripts