Making gFTP not Time Out
gFTP has always given me a bear of time with disconnecting itself at every opportunity. Stop uploading to answer an email? Bam, your FTP session is disconnected and not only do you have to reconnect but also navigate through all those directories to get back to whatever you were doing!
I always thought it was a server thing, but changing this setting in gFTP seems to help for me.
You just open up gFTP, go to the FTP menu, then options. Then on the network tab change the Network timeout field to something high like 1200:
Of course for the longest time I didn’t even try changing this field because when you hover the mouse over it, it says “This is NOT an idle timeout”. Well whatever the field does, it certainly makes my connection not time out so soon when I’m idle, so I’d say it IS an idle timeout. Oh well.