You know the Quick Connect thing on FileZilla? Is it clogged up? Do you wish you didn’t have to start over and erase everything? Your wish has come true. Follow the instructions bellow. All you need to know is a bit of XML, but it’s so easy it’s not very complicated to figure out.

Windows XP

1. Go to C:\Documents and Settings\your_user_name
2. Click in the address bar and append the following to the current URL: \Application Data
3. It should look like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Pacoup\Application Data
4. Double-click on the folder named FileZilla
5. Open recentservers.xml with a raw text editor (e.g. Notepad)
6. Head over to the XML Step of this guide

Windows Vista & Windows 7

1. Go to C:\Users\your_user_name
2. Click in the address bar to activate the URL field and append the following to the current URL: \AppData
3. It should look like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Pacoup\AppData
4. Double-click on the folder named FileZilla
5. Open recentservers.xml with a raw text editor (e.g. Notepad)
6. Head over to the XML Step of this guide

The XML Step

It’s only a matter of editing the right tags. Simply follow this before and after and you should figure it out. If not, ask your local geek or search Google for some very basic XML tutorials.

Before:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<FileZilla3>
    <RecentServers>
        <Server>
            <Host>your_ftp_host.com</Host>
            <Port>21</Port>
            <Protocol>0</Protocol>
            <Type>0</Type>
            <User>your_user_name</User>
            <Pass>xxxxxxx</Pass>
            <Logontype>1</Logontype>
            <TimezoneOffset>0</TimezoneOffset>
            <PasvMode>MODE_DEFAULT</PasvMode>
            <MaximumMultipleConnections>0</MaximumMultipleConnections>
            <EncodingType>Auto</EncodingType>
            <BypassProxy>0</BypassProxy>
        </Server>
    </RecentServers>
</FileZilla3>

After:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<FileZilla3>
    <RecentServers>
        <Server>
            <Host>your_ftp_host.com</Host>
            <Port>21</Port>
            <Protocol>0</Protocol>
            <Type>0</Type>
            <User>your_user_name</User>
            <Pass>xxxxxxx</Pass>
            <Logontype>1</Logontype>
            <TimezoneOffset>0</TimezoneOffset>
            <PasvMode>MODE_DEFAULT</PasvMode>
            <MaximumMultipleConnections>0</MaximumMultipleConnections>
            <EncodingType>Auto</EncodingType>
            <BypassProxy>0</BypassProxy>
        </Server>
        <Server>
            <Host>your_2nd_ftp_host.com</Host>
            <Port>21</Port>
            <Protocol>0</Protocol>
            <Type>0</Type>
            <User>your_user_name</User>
            <Pass>xxxxxxx</Pass>
            <Logontype>1</Logontype>
            <TimezoneOffset>0</TimezoneOffset>
            <PasvMode>MODE_DEFAULT</PasvMode>
            <MaximumMultipleConnections>0</MaximumMultipleConnections>
            <EncodingType>Auto</EncodingType>
            <BypassProxy>0</BypassProxy>
        </Server>
    </RecentServers>
</FileZilla3>