weather or not  you're hosting a website on a Mac OSX being able to transfer file to and from your Mac web server is essential for web developers/designers, and  since a word press site needs to able FTP updates to your  word press sites. Might as well  enable it anyway by following these simple steps:

>Open up the  terminal.
-> enter the following command to  turn  on FTP for mac:
sudo -s launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist
-> or to turn it off enter the following:
sudo -s launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist

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