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Portable Cyberduck #12129

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cyberduck opened this issue Feb 1, 2006 · 5 comments
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Portable Cyberduck #12129

cyberduck opened this issue Feb 1, 2006 · 5 comments
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Gand created the issue

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.
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@dkocher commented

Must also find a way to save the ~/Library/Preferences/ch.sudo.cyberduck.plist at a alternate location.

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Gand commented

By the moment, quite all Portable apps use ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist on HD.

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@dkocher commented

But that defeats the idea of a portable application.

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@dkocher commented

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/.

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@dkocher commented

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"

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