Try Fetch Free for 15 days and see how well it works for you. Fetch 5.7 is compatible with Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 and later, and translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. Fetch for iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC! How far would you go to save your pet? Follow a young boy on a sensational journey like no other as he sets off to rescue his dog Bear!! A faculty or staff NetID and password are required. Fetch is licensed for academic use only. If you have questions about these prerequisites, please contact ITAC or your department's technical support person (TSP) before proceeding. Fetch is a full-featured FTP, SFTP and FTPS (FTP with TLS/SSL) client with a simple and easy-to-use interface. Fetch features include: a file list modeled on the Mac OS X Finder, WebView, droplet shortcuts, automatic support for Zip, Tar, Gzip, StuffIt and other common file formats, editing text or image files directly on a server, Bonjour (Rendezvous) support, Unicode file names.
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- A faculty or staff NetID and password are required.
- Fetch is licensed for academic use only.
If you have questions about these prerequisites, please contact ITAC or your department's technical support person (TSP) before proceeding.
Installation Instructions
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You can use Fetch, a popular FTP program forMac OS and Mac OS X, to transfer files to andfrom a remote computer. For example, using Fetch, you can download afile from an anonymous FTP site.
Starting Fetch
When you run Fetch, a dialog box called
New Connection
will appear. You will need to enter the following information:- In the 'Host:' field, type the host name or IP numberof the computer you will be transferring files to or from. Forexample, if you are transferring files from the computer
ftp.dartmouth.edu
, in the 'Host:' field type: Or you can enter this computer's IP number, if you know it: - Next to 'User ID:', and 'Password:', type your username andpassword for the computer you are connecting to. For anonymousFTP, try leaving these fields blank. If the anonymous FTPserver refuses your connection, try typing
anonymous
forthe User ID and your email address for the password. - If you want to go to a specific directory, type its path in the'Initial directory:' (Fetch 4.x) or 'Directory:' (Fetch 3.x) field. InFetch 4.x, to see the 'Initial directory:' field, click the trianglenear the bottom left side of the
New Connection
window.If you want to enter the default directory, leave the 'Initialdirectory:' or 'Directory:' field blank. - When you are done entering this information, click OK orpress
Return
.
Once a connection has been successfully made, Fetch will display alist of files and directories on the remote computer. Folder iconsrepresent directories and subdirectories, while generic file iconsrepresent files. The current directory is shown at the top of thewindow. Clicking the current directory name produces a pop-up menu,listing the directories in which the current directory resides.Selecting one of these moves you to that directory. You can alsochange to a specific directory by double-clicking its folder icon.
Fetch and file types
There are three modes Fetch uses to transfer files: Automatic, Text,and Binary. Additionally, when you 'Put Files' in Fetch for Mac OS X,there are several versions of Binary mode you can choose from,including Raw Data, MacBinary III, BinHex, andAppleSingle. Choose the appropriate binary mode for yourfile. In Fetch 4.x, switch between modes using the pull-down menu nextto 'Mode:'. In Fetch 3.x, click the radio button of the mode you wantto use. In both versions, Automatic is selected by default.
Automatic mode works for most files, and with it selected, Fetch willuse clues from the filename to determine the correct transfermode. Use Text mode to transfer files which are plain text with nospecial formatting. Use Binary mode to transfer word processingdocuments (e.g., Microsoft Word files), images (e.g., GIFand JPEG), compressed files (e.g., StuffIt, Zip,and GNU zip), MacBinary files, and other documentscontaining special formatting. If you transfer such a binaryfile while Fetch is in Text mode, the copy you make of the filemay not work correctly. Automatic mode usually correctly identifiesand transfers files, but if it doesn't, try specifying Text or Binarymode. For more information about file types, consult Fetch'sdocumentation.
Fetch For Mac Osx
Transferring files
Fetch For Macintosh
Once connected, there are two ways to transfer files using Fetch:
- Drag and drop: If you are using System 7.5 orlater, you can download files from the remote computer by draggingthem to the desktop or to a Finder window. Conversely, youcan drag files to the Fetch window to start an upload. If you havepermission to do so, you can delete files on the remote computer bydragging the files to the Trash icon on the Mac OS desktop orMac OS X Dock. Fetch will ask you to confirm that you want to deletethe files.
- Put/Get buttons: After highlighting a file orfolder in the window representing the remote computer, click thePut Files... or Put File... button to open a dialogbox where you can choose a file to upload. Click theGet..., Get File..., or GetFiles... button to download files to your computer.