# FTP Upload of large number of files
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/ftp-upload-of-large-number-of-files/108
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [June 13, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/ftp-upload-of-large-number-of-files/108 "2006-06-13T02:33:45Z")
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/ftp-upload-of-large-number-of-files/108/1 "2006-06-13T02:33:45Z")
I have to send a very large number of files to an FTP server.
At the moment, the only way I’ve found to do it is using a File Iterator, and the FTP client. However, this means that for every file, connection will be open, authenticated, file transferred and connection closed.
I have hundreds of (small) files, so not that great, it takes hours.
Is there any way to create the connection once, then do the file iteration and FTP upload, and then finally close the connection?
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### Author:  [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2006, 2:40am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/ftp-upload-of-large-number-of-files/108/2 "2006-06-13T02:40:31Z")
That’ll teach me not to ask for help that quickly…
The answer is: Upgrade to 4.0… which I’m going to do straight away!
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### Author:  [@tate](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/tate)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/ftp-upload-of-large-number-of-files/108/3 "2006-06-14T02:47:17Z")
Yep, that's the right answer :) The new set of FTP actions in FB4 give you a lot of flexibility, as well as extra speed for multiple operations.
.t8