Open SecureFT and configure a connection. Set the Initial Remote Expanded Path on the Server tab of the Edit Configuration dialog. Regardless of the protocol selected, you’ll still get put into your home directory on the remote system after connecting.

This is in part due to the different protocols available (FTP, SFTP and SCP) and the requirements of different file transfer servers. There is no general case that will allow any protocol on any server to be read perfectly, which limits how the remote path can be selected, if at all.

The Initial Local Expanded Path also fails, but in a different way. If you specify a directory — for example, C:\Temp — it expands that path, but it still displays the local files from the top of My Computer rather than taking you to the directory you chose.

CR 49, Century FTP local directory
CR 476, SCP
CR 669, general

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