Cyberduck Help / Howto / Bookmarks

Toggle Bookmarks

You can toggle between the bookmarks and the browser using Bookmarks → Toggle Bookmarks (Command-B) or by clicking the bookmarks icon in the navigation toolbar. Depending on the bookmark icon size choosen in Cyberduck → Preferences → Browser → Bookmarks, the nickname, URL, username and comment is shown per bookmark.

Sorting

You can manually sort bookmarks by dragging a row to a different location.

Filter

Use the search field (Command-/) to filer bookmarks by nickname and hostname. Only bookmarks that match the search string are displayed in the bookmark list. Search is case insensitive.

Add new Bookmark

From current connection

• Select Bookmarks → Toggle Bookmarks. Click the plus button to add the host connected to in this browser window to the Bookmarks. An editor window will open where you can further adjust the bookmark properties (i.e. nickname).

• Drag the proxy icon in the browser window title bar to the bookmark drawer or to the Finder.app. You can double click this file in the Fnder.app to open a new connection.

From a third-party application

Drag an URL form a third-party application to the bookmark table to create a new bookmark. This can be a link embedded in a web page or from any text source.

Edit Bookmark

Select Bookmark → Edit Bookmark. A panel where you can edit the bookmark's properties will appear. If the hostname configured is not reachable, an alert icon is displayed next to the URL. Clicking it opens Network Diagnostics.

Protocol

Your hosting service provider will let you know what protocol to use. Change the protocol in the top most popup menu.

Nickname

Any name for the bookmark describing it for easy access using the bookmark filter. You can also type this name in the bookmark view to select it by name.

Server

The hostname of the server. This is not editable if you have choosen a protocol with a predefined, non-configurable hostname.

Username

The login credentials from your service provider.

Public Key Authentication

For SFTP connections only. Choose a private key for authentication instead of a password. If the key is password-protected, you are prompted to enter the passphrase to decrypt the key.

Path

Download Folder

Default location for files downloaded from this server.

Transfer Files

Choose to open a new connection for transfers or to use the existing browser connection. When using the browser connection, transfers block other operations.

Connect Mode

For FTP connections only. Refer to FTP Connect Mode.

Encoding

For FTP connections only. Character encoding of filenames on the server. You can also change the encoding used when the connection is open using 'View' → 'Text Encoding' if characters are not displayed properly. Try UTF-8 (the default), ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252. Refer to Character Encoding.

Timezone

For all protocols except FTP, timestamps are reported in ​UTC from the server and there is no need for configuration. All timestamps in the browser are automatically converted to the timezone you have configured in the System Preferences and displayed in local time. For FTP however , the local timezone is assumed for timestamps in directory listings. If the server is configured with a different timezone than your Mac and returning the local time for modification dates, there will be an offset by the timezone difference. To get the correct local time for modification dates in the browser, you can choose the timezone of the server in the bookmark setting. Select Bookmark → Edit Bookmark.

Web URL

Refer to Web URL configuration?.

Exporting Bookmarks

Drag the bookmark from the Bookmark Drawer anywhere to the Finder.app (e.g. the Desktop). You can double click the document in the Finder.app to open a new connection to the server specified in the bookmark. To backup all bookmarks, refer to this FAQ entry.

Importing Bookmarks

Just drag the bookmark file from the Finder.app to the Bookmark drawer.

From third-party applications

You are asked if you want import bookmarks from the following list of applications if the application is still installed on your system and bookmarks configured with that application are found.

• Transmit 4 (as of 3.7)
• Filezilla
• Fetch
• Flow
• Interarchy

Sharing bookmarks between different computers

You can sign up for ​Dropbox to share bookmarks between different computers and users.

• Install Dropbox
• Quit Cyberduck
• Move the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Cyberduck to your Dropbox folder location (typically in ~/Dropbox)
• Open a Terminal.app window and enter

defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck application.support.path ~/Dropbox/Cyberduck

• Restart Cyberduck.