Cyberduck
Mountain Duck
CLIOpened on Feb 1, 2006 at 5:54:43 PM
#180 closed enhancement (fixed)
Portable Cyberduck
| Reported by: | Gand | Owned by: | dkocher |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 2.5.5 |
| Component: | core | Version: | 2.5.4 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | gand@… | Architecture: | |
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Description
Add a way to set the preference folder path so that, running Cyberduck via script, can be opened on an external drive (USB thumb, etc) taking all settings with you. A portable app is launched via a script that set the prefernce folder path to the portable drive and then open the app. Have a look at Adium script or AbiWord script to easy understand how it work. This was inspired by portableapps.com. All OS X portable apps are here.
Change History (7)
comment:1 Changed on Feb 1, 2006 at 5:58:30 PM by dkocher
- Milestone set to 2.5.5
- Status changed from new to assigned
comment:2 Changed on Feb 2, 2006 at 6:52:22 PM by anonymous
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
comment:3 Changed on Feb 3, 2006 at 1:47:24 PM by dkocher
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
comment:4 Changed on Feb 6, 2006 at 10:53:42 PM by Gand
By the moment, quite all Portable apps use ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist on HD.
comment:5 Changed on Feb 7, 2006 at 8:58:26 AM by dkocher
But that defeats the idea of a portable application.
comment:6 Changed on Feb 10, 2006 at 3:55:41 PM by dkocher
One can set the property application.support.path; this is where Cyberduck will save its History, Queue items and bookmarks. This is by default ~/Library/Application Support/Cyberduck.
defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck application.support.path "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Something"
There is still no solution for the general Preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/.
comment:7 Changed on Feb 13, 2006 at 1:49:50 PM by dkocher
- Cc gand@… added
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from reopened to closed
Ignore the above instructions. Info.plist of Cyberduck.app must now have (or similar)
<key>application.support.path</key> <string>/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck/Preferences</string> <key>application.preferences.path</key> <string>/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck/Preferences/Preferences.plist</string>
You can also write these settings using the defaults command (use an absolute pathname to refer to the Info.plist and omit the plist extension)
defaults write "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck.app/Contents/Info" application.support.path "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck/Preferences" defaults write "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck.app/Contents/Info" application.preferences.path "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck/Preferences/Preferences.plist"
Must also find a way to save the ~/Library/Preferences/ch.sudo.cyberduck.plist at a alternate location.