[Mac OS X Hints]:
Avoid Finder FTP services in 10.2. Sadly, they're right. FTP Services in the Finder are really sub-par, similar to where WebDAV Services were in Mac OS X 10.0. Even if the FTP Services work, I've had issues with file permissions. I was very happy to mount a Zope server via FTP, go into a Python Script object, and open it up very quickly in Apple's simple TextEdit editor. I made some changes, and tried to save, only to get permission warning after permission warning, with no changes saved.
So I tried
WebDAV editing of Zope objects from the Finder. I was able to open, edit, and save a file, only to go to the "Zope" server's management screens to see that the SQL Method I was trying to edit had turned into a plain File object. Looking at the Undo Log (Zope's default object database keeps historical transactions that can be rolled back), I noticed that the save command had resulted in a page full of WebDAV operations - and that I had not actually saved to the old object in Zope, but that Mac OS X's WebDAV 'File System' support had renamed the old object, put the new one in as a fresh upload, and then removed the original. As such, Zope had no clue what the new incoming data should be, so it simply made a generic File object. Fortunately, I was able to use Zope's
undo capabilities to get my original SQL Method back in place, and I went back to the old standby of editing in the TextArea or via XEmacs' FTP support.
sigh. Hopefully a nearby update to Mac OS 10.2 will fix the FTP support so that the upper layers of the OS don't freeze up. And it would be especially nice if the file permissions problem went away too.