Part I - Monitoring, Pausing and Starting Transfers with WS_FTP Pro

For this tutorial, we'll be monitoring a transfer from an anonymous FTP connection to ftp.FTPplanet.com. If you need assistance connecting to an anonymous FTP site, click here.

Once connected to ftp.FTPplanet.com, navigate to the desired destination folder on your local system (My Documents, Desktop, etc.) as you would for a normal transfer. 

Now, open the Transfer Manager dialog by clicking on View in the toolbar menu and selecting Transfer Manager.

Now we are going to monitor the download of a file to your computer from ftp.FTPplanet.com. With the Transfer Manager open in the background, go to WS_FTP Pro and open (double click) the folder labeled WS_FTP on ftp.FTPplanet.com (the Remote System) and then open the folder labeled WS_FTP Pro. Select the file, WS_FTPPro_eval.exe, and click the download transfer arrow (left arrow).

You will now see your new transfer has appeared in the Transfer Manager. The Transfer Manager displays the following information about your transfer:

• Source - The path and name of the file or folder that is being transferred.
• Status - A progress bar showing percentage of completion.
• Transferred - The size of the transfer in bytes.
• Rate (KB/S) - The number of Kilobytes being transferred per second.
• Size - The actual size (in bytes) of the file.
• Time Left - The estimated time left until the transfer is complete.

Now let's pause the transfer before it finishes downloading. To pause a transfer, first highlight the transfer you'd like to pause (in this case, it's the only transfer) and then click on Transfer in the toolbar menu and select Pause.