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Use of symbolic link for application support folder

Reported by:	luckman212	Owned by:	dkocher
Priority:	normal	Milestone:	6.2.9
Component:	core	Version:	6.2.6
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	bookmarks, symlink, hardlink
Cc:		Architecture:
Platform:	macOS 10.13

Description

Cyberduck Version 6.2.6 (26405) MountainDuck 2.0.2 (8111) Tested on macOS 10.12.6 and 10.13

I like to share my bookmarks between 3 computers. For this I use ResilioSync (used to be BTSync). The way I do this for all my other apps is, move the config folder to the Sync folder and then create a Symlink in the original spot for it to read from. This works for all other apps but not for Cyberduck/MountainDuck. They refuse to acknowledge the symlink and either hang when launched (Cyberduck) or just show no bookmarks (MountainDuck).

I had "solved" this in 10.12 using Hardlink instead of Symlink - which did work, however now that I am on 10.13 with APFS filesystem, hardlinks are no longer supported and so this is not working again.

Please if you can support the fact that the bookmarks folder might be a Symlink that would be excellent

Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed on Oct 11, 2017 at 2:40:57 PM by dkocher

Summary changed from Cyberduck (and Mountain Duck) do not properly handle symlinked config folders to Use of symbolic link for application support folder

comment:2 Changed on Oct 11, 2017 at 2:41:46 PM by dkocher

Milestone set to 6.2.9
Resolution set to fixed
Status changed from new to closed

I have linked the application support folder to a directory in my home folder with ln -s ~/duck ~/Library/Group\ Containers/G69SCX94XU.duck/Library/Application\ Support/duck and could not reproduce the issue.

comment:3 Changed on Oct 11, 2017 at 2:52:11 PM by luckman212

Thanks for looking into this but I think there's an issue still. It may work to symlink the entire "duck" folder however that is not what I am doing (I only want to sync Bookmarks - also it is probably not wise or even viable to sync the whole folder because the mountpoints are also stored there. Not sure what horrible things might happen if it's being used on 2 machines and both have the same bookmark mounted...) So I am only symlinking my "Bookmarks" folder. Here's a repro. I just tested this with MountainDuck 2.0.3(snap)

quit MountainDuck

open Terminal and run these commands

cd "$HOME/Library/Group Containers/G69SCX94XU.duck/Library/Application Support/duck"
mv Bookmarks "$HOME/duck-bookmarks-test"
ln -siv "$HOME/duck-bookmarks-test" Bookmarks

relaunch MountainDuck

no bookarks will be shown...

comment:4 Changed on Oct 11, 2017 at 2:59:44 PM by luckman212

Resolution fixed deleted
Status changed from closed to reopened

comment:5 Changed on Oct 12, 2017 at 7:05:08 PM by dkocher

Owner set to dkocher
Status changed from reopened to new

Caused by: ch.cyberduck.core.exception.LocalAccessDeniedException{detail='Ordner /Users/dkocher/Library/Group Containers/G69SCX94XU.duck/Library/Application Support/duck/Bookmarks kann nicht angelegt werden', cause='java.nio.file.FileAlreadyExistsException: /Users/dkocher/Library/Group Containers/G69SCX94XU.duck/Library/Application Support/duck/Bookmarks', message='Access denied'}
	at ch.cyberduck.core.Local.mkdir(Local.java:194)
	at ch.cyberduck.core.AbstractFolderHostCollection.load(AbstractFolderHostCollection.java:125)
	at ch.cyberduck.core.BookmarkCollection.load(BookmarkCollection.java:246)