Hello, Lftp came through for me finally. I figured out how to make it work. Worked on it all day.
I'm the man who wrote you earlier today in regards to empty directories taking forever and an eternity to download. Here is what I did to mirror an entire directory tree. First, I did this command: set ftp:ssl-allow no This command is necessary because otherwise, the ls and mirror commands hang forever. Next, I did this command: mirror -nP Having parallel connections made a huge difference! The default number was good enough and seemed to do the trick. For some reason, parallel connections did not hang on empty directories the way a single connection did. Of course, I'd already downloaded some of it. Hence, the -n option. However, it didn't go just 5 times faster. It went MUCH faster. I understand the default is 5 connections and I understand that -P without a number causes lftp to default to 5. The difference in speed was 10 minutes versus 3 hours and counting. In any case, it now works. Thanks! Great program! Ed Abbott
