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Cyberduck Help / Howto / Mountain Duck
Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer is available for Mac & Windows.
Mountain Duck lets you mount any remote FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 & OpenStack Swift server storage as a local disk in the Finder.app on Mac and the File Explorer on Windows. Open remote files with any application and work like on a local volume. Transfer files using Finder to remote servers, fast.
User Interface
Mountain Duck runs in the status bar (Mac) and taskbar (Windows). When opening the application you can choose to automatically open Mountain Duck when logging in. Re-opening the application will open previously mounted volumes.
Bookmarks
Choose New Bookmark… to add a new bookmark or <Bookmark> → Edit Bookmark to change properties.
Share Bookmarks with Cyberduck
Bookmarks are shared between Cyberduck (Version 4.7.3 or later) and Mountain Duck.
Connect
Choose <Bookmark> → Connect to mount the server as a volume in the Finder.app or the File Explorer on Windows. You can connect to multiple servers and have several volumes mounted. All operations on the remote files and folders can then be performed like on local files.
Mount Location
Volumes are mounted in a shared group container in your user library folder. You can navigate to the volume from the shortcut listed in the Finder.app sidebar in Favorites. To navigate there from Terminal.app you might want to create a symbolic link in your home folder with ln -s ~/Library/Group\ Containers/G69SCX94XU.duck/Library/Application\ Support/duck/Volumes/ ~/Volumes.
Tip. You can just select the menu item with the bookmark name to connect, too. If you are already connected, selecting the menu item will reveal the volume in Finder.app.
Mount as read-only volume
Select Mount Options: Read Only in the bookmark to mount the volume as read-only and disallow any write operations on the remote disk.
Disconnect
Choose <Bookmark> → Connect to unmount a volume. Alternatively eject the volume in Finder.app with File → Eject. or in File Explorer on Windows.
Copying Files
Use the native features of the file explorer to move and copy files.
Client-side Encryption (Cryptomator)
Upcoming feature in Mountain Duck 2
Support for client side encryption with Cryptomator interoperable vaults.
Notifications
Notifications of the connection status are posted to the Notification Center of the operating system.
Failures
If there is a network connectivity issue while the remote server is mounted, an alert is displayed that allows you to retry the connection or disconnect and unmount the volume.
Finder Extension & Windows File Explorer Extension
macOS
Requires macOS 10.11 or later.
Enable the Mountain Duck Finder Extension in System Preferences → Extensions → Finder by selecting the checkbox. This will enable context menu items for files selected on a mounted volume with options to Reload the folder listing and copy & open URLs of files.
Reload in Finder
Changes from server not immediately visible. The directory listing in Finder.app may become out of date when another applications is adding, removing or modifying files on the server. Choose Reload in Finder from the bookmark menu item or Reload from the Finder Extension menu. On Windows, you can force File Explorer to refresh the directory listing with F5.
Copy & Open URLs of Files
Right click files on a mounted drive will open a menu with items to copy & open URLs of files. This will include the Origin URL, HTTP URLs, CDN and temporary URLs if available.
Add Bookmark
Right click to add a bookmark for the selected path.
Open in Terminal
Right click on a folder and choose Open in Terminal to open a SSH connection to the server in Terminal for SFTP bookmarks.
Recommended Settings in Finder.app
- Enable View → Show Status Bar (⌘-/)
- Choose View → Hide Preview (⌘⇧-P)
- Disable View → Show View Options → Show icon preview
- Finder → Preferences… → General → Show these items on the desktop: Connected servers
- Disable write on .DS_Store files on mounted volumes.
Login Item
You will be prompted if Mountain Duck would be opened when logging in to your computer. If you have chosen Don't ask again but want to add Mountain Duck as a login item later, reset the preference with defaults delete io.mountainduck loginitem.enable in a Terminal.app window.
Usage Scenarios
Mirror files to remote server or cloud storage with rsync
Use rsync or any other of your preferred tools to mirror files for example to an S3 bucket. Set the --timeout=TIME option in rsync (in seconds) if you have a low bandwidth or high latency connection.
Open remote files in text editor
Sublime Text and other editors allow you to open folders to work on multiple files.
Create ZIP archive of files on FTP server or cloud storage
Use your preferred archive utility to create a compressed archive of files already stored on the server.
Known Issues & Workarounds
Refer to Known Issues.
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