There are many popular FTP clients such as CuteFTP, FileZilla, FlashFXP, WS_FTP, SmartFTP and etc. A FTP client is used to connect to a FTP server to mainly upload or download files. If you have a website, most likely you already have experience in using a FTP client to connect and transfer files to your FTP server. It is not very difficult, and all you need is the FTP address, username, password and most of the time the default port for FTP is 21.

One of my favorite FTP client software that I normally use is Cute FTP by Globalscape. Cute FTP has been around for a very long time since 1996. What I like about Cute FTP is it is easy to use yet very powerful allowing me to connect to multiple FTP sites. It also supports concurrent connections so that I can browse a folder on a site while transferring files from the same site. There are 2 ways to make a connect to a FTP server which is through the site manager and quick connect bar. Site manager is where I create a site’s profile with the server login info so I can connect directly by double clicking on it. As for quick connect bar, it is meant to make speedy connections to FTP sites by specifying only the basic necessary login information.

I recently canceled a dedicated server hosting which had Cute FTP installed. I was able to easily remove all the FTP sites in site manager but when it comes to clearing the quick connect bar history, I couldn’t find how to do it. After spending more time digging deeper, I finally found it.


There is no way to delete the connection history individually for Cute FTP quick connect bar. It’s either you keep it or delete everything on the list.

1. Click on Tools at the menu bar and select Global Options. Alternatively you can use the hotkey Alt+F7.

2. Click on Security tree at the left hand window.

3. Check “Remove Quick Connect & Connect to URL history upon program exit“.

4. Click OK.

Once you close Cute FTP, the quick connect history will automatically be cleared. It seemed easy but not easy enough since we have to do that in options and not from the quick connect bar itself. By the way, only the Professional and Home version has the quick connect bar. The Home version of Cute FTP doesn’t have that.