A PowerShell script to upload via FTP a directory one file at a time. I basically got tired of having to open FileZilla and wait for it to connect and then waiting for everything to upload.

Upload.ps1

#Directory To Pull Files From
$Dir="C:\foo\bar\toBeUploaded"

#FTP site and credentials
$ftp = "ftp://ftp.somesite.com/" 
$user = "user" 
$pass = "pass"  

$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient 
$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pass)  

#list every sql server trace file 
foreach($item in (dir $Dir "*.*")){ 
	"Uploading $item..." 
	$uri = New-Object System.Uri($ftp+$item.Name) 
	$webclient.UploadFile($uri, $item.FullName)
  
  #Archive Uploaded Files By Date
	$date = (Get-Date).ToString('MM-dd-yyyy')
	$path = "C:\foo\bar\uploaded\" + $date
  #If Today's folder doesn't exist, make one.
	If(!(test-path $path))
		{
		New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $path
		} 
    #Move file to today's folder
	Move-Item $item.FullName -destination $path
	 } 
#Beep When Finished
function b($a,$b){
    [console]::beep($a,$b)
}
b 1000 100;
b 1333 200;

I have to batch resize and upload a lot of image files. I created an Action in Photoshop that does all the processing (resizing, save as web) and then saves it in a \images\fixed\ folder. After I'm done with a batch of images I run this upload script and it takes everything out of the \images\fixed\ folder, uploads it to the ftp destination, and then moves it to \images\uploaded[date] folder.

It took the processing time for each batch of photos and cut it way down.