Cannot change type of transfer (binary/ascii)

I've downloaded and installed the latest version (3.6.8 build 245) and I can't seem to change the type of transfer between automatic, binary, and ascii.

This is causing my programs to fail, since it's not handling the ascii files correctly.

I've modified it in the settings to automatic, and made sure the ASCII transfer type list had the file type (*.prop). But when I go to drag n drop between the two panels from local to remote, the copy dialog shows the transfer types as greyed out, and is set to binary, no matter what I set the preferences to..

Please help!

The transfer mode selector is disabled when the ASCII (text) mode would have no effect. I.e. when local and remote computer uses the same end-of-line sequnce, i.e. when the server uses Windows sequence.

EOL sequence for server can be configured on Environment tab of Login window.

So, for SCP protocol you will have the selector disabled whenever you select Windows sequence (13/10). For SFTP protocol the same is true as long as the latest SFTP protocol version supported by the server is 3. From 4 up the selector is enabled always due to native support for ascii (text) mode transfers by the server.

I should have said, I'm using WinSCP on a Windows XP box, but transferring to a Linux server... I would think that the ASCII transfer would have to be enabled, since the line endings are different???

Thanks for your help!

Never mind! I got it.. Just had to think differently! :oops:

I thought the line ending setting in the Environment panel was for the local machine, not the server. Once I changed that to Unix (LF), it worked perfectly... Sorry about that!