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Creating a Shortcut for an FTP Site Profile

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The 'Create Shortcut' window should now be open. First you'll need locate the item you want to shortcut to, i.e. WS_FTP.

You can browse to the location of you WS_FTP executable or simply cut and paste the following (these are the default locations for these programs):

For WS_FTP Pro: "C:\Program Files\WS_FTP Pro\wsftppro.exe"
For WS_FTP LE: "C:\Program Files\WS_FTP\WS_FTP95.exe"

However, you're not done so please don't click the Next button yet.


You'll also need to add your FTP site profile information or you'll just be creating a shortcut to WS_FTP.

Following the closing quote in the text you just entered, you'll need to add the name of your FTP profile along with some DOS controls.

For this example, let's use the Ipswitch FTP site profile (which comes with every version of WS_FTP).

For WS_FTP Pro add: -i Ipswitch.ini -p Ipswitch -s Ipswitch:
For WS_FTP LE add: -p Ipswitch -s Ipswitch:

  • The '-i Ipswitch.ini' is the folder that the profile is contained in. For profiles stored in the MySites folder, use original.ini. This value is not unnecessary in WS_FTP LE since it does not have folders to store profiles. 
  • The "-p Ipswitch" is just the profile name
  • The "-s Ipswitch" is also the profile name
  • Be sure to end the line with a colon ':'

You view your FTP site profiles every time you launch WS_FTP. To create shortcuts to other profiles, simply substitute the new profile folder name and profile name:

"C:\Program Files\WS_FTP Pro\ftp95pro.exe" -i profilefolder.ini 
-p profilename -s profilename:

Note: This shortcut will not work with profile names or folder names that have spaces in them.  A work-around is to replace the spaces in your names with underscores ( _ ).

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