Prompts

You can configure whether CuteFTP displays a confirmation message when you attempt to delete an item from local drives, remote Sites, or the queue, and displays a prompt for errors, connection progress, and other information. The Prompts page is used to configure prompts to appear for various events. All prompts on this page of Global Options are enabled by default.

To configure CuteFTP prompt settings

  1. On the main menu, click Tools > Global Options (or press ALT+F7).

  2. Expand the Display node, then click Prompts. The Prompts options appear.

  3. To display a prompt when deleting from local drive, select the Confirm when deleting from local drive check box. Clear this check box if you do not want a confirmation prompt to appear.

  4. To display a prompt when deleting from a remote folder, select the Confirm when deleting from remote drive check box. Clear this check box if you do not want a confirmation prompt to appear.

  5. To display a prompt when deleting from the queue, select the Confirm when deleting from queue check box. Clear this check box if you do not want a confirmation prompt to appear.

  6. To display a prompt when you try to close a window for an active connection, select the Confirm when closing a remote pane check box. Clear this check box if you do not want a confirmation prompt to appear.

  7. To display a prompt upon certain server errors (5xx range), select the Show prompt upon error check box.

  8. To display a prompt when the Site password is rejected or missing, select the Show login prompt if connection fails or is missing data check box.

  9. To display a prompt when a task is scheduled and added to the queue, select the Show prompt when new tasks are scheduled check box.

  10. To display a prompt when a scheduled task has started to run, select the Show prompt when new tasks are started check box.

  11. To display a prompt when the archive was expanded successfully, select the Show prompt after successful decompression check box.

  12. To display a warning when you may be transferring a certain file type in the wrong mode, select the Show warning when transferring binary files in ASCII mode check box.

  13. To display a connection status message when connecting, select the Show connection progress prompts check box. If the log view is unavailable when connecting, this dialog will show you if there may be a problem with the connection.

  14. To display a reminder to create a Site Manager password, select the Show Site Manager password reminder prompt check box.

  15. Click Apply if you are going to make changes to other pages; click OK to save changes and close the Global Options dialog box.