The options are split into 3 different pages:

General Page:

Email Address

Specify your emailaddress which will be used for anonymous logins.

On startup

When the application is started:

• Do nothing.
• Show Site Manager.
• Connect to last connected FTP site.

Save window size and position

Saves the positions and size of various windows of FreeFTP between sessions.

Delete Confirmation (recommended)

Asks for confirmation when you try to delete something.

Only show error messagebox when Trace is hidden

If you prefer to see messageboxes when something is going wrong, uncheck this option.

Do not show progress dialog for uploads and downloads

Hides the progress window that displays the current status of your uploads/downloads. If you hide these windows you can still see the status in the Transfer Manager window.

Auto reconnect when connection is lost with the server

Sometimes when a connection is idle for a longer period, the FTP server will close the connection. If you check this option, FreeFTP will automatically try to reconnect to the server when you perform an action. It also remembers the folder that you were working in.

Always download to Local Browser location

Normally when you select download from the menu the selected items will be downloaded to the Local Folder you've specified in the Site Manager, but when you select this option it will instead download the files to the folder you've selected in the Local Browser window.

Connection Page:

Default Download Path

This value be used a default when using the Connection Wizard or when connection via Quick Connect.

Default Retries

This value be used a default when using the Connection Wizard or when connection via Quick Connect.

Default Retrydelay

This value be used a default when using the Connection Wizard or when connection via Quick Connect.

Default Use PASVMode

This value be used a default when using the Connection Wizard or when connection via Quick Connect.

Connection Timeout

Timeout before connection request will be aborted.

Maximum Simultaneous Connections

When you check this option you can limit the number of connections that are open simultaneously. Some FTP servers have a limit of connections per IP address, so too many simultaneous connections will generate connection failures. If you activate this settings, FreeFTP will queue all requests if it has reached the specified limit.

Proxy Preconfigured (default)

Retrieves the proxy or direct configuration from the registry.

Proxy Direct to Internet

Resolves all host names locally.

Proxy through CERN proxy

Passes requests to the specified proxy. The name of the preferred CERN proxy must be entered in the Proxyname field.

Advanced Page:

Disable resume feature

This option disables the resume feature: Normally when downloads or uploads are interrupted, you can continue the transfer using the resume feature of FreeFTP. This is a great feature if you want to download/upload big files, but can be quite confusing if you transfer a lot of small files (that you want to overwrite instead of resume). If this is the case select this option and FreeFTP will not ask to resume transfers.

Do not show Status Callback Information

Hides the detailed status information in the Trace window.

Send keepalive to prevent timeouts

Will sends dummy request (NOOP) to the FTP server, so it will not timeout on you.

Interval

The interval in which dummy messages are send to the server (default: 30 seconds.)

Remove failed transfers from queue

With this option checked failed transfers will be deleted from the queue (in the transfer manager). If you do not check this option, all failed transfer will remain in the list wit hthe failed status, so you can resubmit them again.

Force parallel file transfers

By default FreeFTP starts simultaneous selected files for upload and downloads in one thread (serial). Files will then be up/downloaded one by one. This improves transfer speed for small files, because only one connection has to be made to the server. Sometimes it may be better to transfer files parallel (like previous version of FreeFTP did). Especially for large files. All selected files will then be up/downloaded in a seperate thread.
You can also force parallel file transfer 'on the fly' by holding down the SHIFT key while pressing upload or download.

Preserve remote timestamp for downloaded files

Select this option if you want to preserve the original remote timestamp for downloaded files instead of the current timestamp.

Preserve local timestamp for uploaded files

Select this option if you want to preserve the original local timestamp for uploaded files instead of the current timestamp. The FTP server must support the MDTM command (last MoDification TiMe) to make this feature usefull. Other servers will just ignore the command.