FTP cd problems with MC

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 8, 2012, at 20:24, Tim Johnson wrote:

> I have recently updated to version MC 4.8.1.3 on max OSX using macports and ftp
> no longer works properly. Connections seem to work but changing directories
> often fails, and am having all kinds of erratic behavior. I have seen this on
> more than one server. In one case I had a system adminstrator on the phone with
> me and he was seeing all kinds of weird things, like the wrong user or user ID
> being submitted.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing problems like this?
> 
> I am deeply troubled. MC has been exclusively and reliably been my
> FTP client for over 10 years and it is now pretty much useless for
> such.

You could downgrade to a previous version of mc that worked correctly for you.

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort

There is no maintainer for mc in MacPorts. If there's a problem, you should contact the developers directly.