Like many other people, I use FileZilla as the FTP client to connect to various FTP servers and transfer files. But I do not use it very frequently. Recently, whenever I launch FileZilla, it starts to download the updated version and install it. This is alright if it happens once in a while, but if is happening every single time you launch FileZilla then it soon becomes very annoying. So if you do not want to bothered by the updates every few days in FileZilla, then you can disable the updates or change their frequency in the following manner:
Method 1: From FileZilla Settings
- Launch FileZilla, click on the Edit and then select Settings from the menubar.
- In the Settings window, select Updates page from the left side list.
- On the updates page, you can change the updates frequency to never, once a day or once a week. For disabling the updates altogether, you should select Never. But it is suggested that you select Once a week, so that FileZilla does not check for the updates every day.
- Click on the OK button to save the settings.
Method 2: Edit XML configuration file
Since the FileZilla client settings offer to change the update frequency to daily or weekly only, you have to edit the configuration files manually if you want a longer frequency for updates. Here is how:
- Install Notepad++ in your PC. It makes editing files easier. But you can use Windows Notepad too.
- Press the hotkey Win+R to open the Run dialog.
- Type %AppData%\FileZilla in the Run dialog and press Enter.
- Right-click on filezilla.xml file and select Edit with Notepad++ or Edit in case you want to use Windows Notepad.
- Scroll down, find the setting Update Check and set its value to 1. This enabled the automatic updates.
- Similarly, find the setting Update Check Interval and set its value to number of days, e.g., 30. You can set the value to 7 for once a week, 1 for once every day, and so on.
- Press Ctrl + S to save the file.