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= [wiki:help/en Cyberduck Help] / [wiki:help/en/howto Howto] / Mountain Duck =

Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer is available for Mac & Windows.

 [https://mountainduck.io  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.


== Installation ==
=== Mac ===
Requires OS X 10.8 or later. ''No'' installation of kernel extensions or system libraries is required. Mountain Duck is installed through the Mac App Store in `/Applications`.

=== Windows ===
Requires Windows 7 or later. Run the ''Mountain Duck Installer.exe'' to install Mountain Duck.

[[Image(Mountain Duck Windows Installer.png)]]

== 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.

[[Image(Status Bar Menu Mac.png)]]
=== Bookmarks ===

Bookmarks are shared between Cyberduck (Version [milestone:4.8 4.8] or later) and Mountain Duck. Choose ''New Bookmark…'' to add a new bookmark or ''<Bookmark> → Edit Bookmark'' to change properties.

=== Connect ===
Choose ''<Bookmark> → Connect'' to mount the server as a volume in the ''Finder.app'' or the ''File Explorer'' on Windows. All operations on the remote files and folders can then be performed like on local files.

[[Image(Copy Operation Mountain Duck Finder.png)]]

=== Notifications ===
Notifications of the connection status are posted to the ''Notification Center'' of the operating system.

== Registration Key ==
=== Mac ===
You can always reinstall Mountain Duck on any Mac you own from the Mac App Store in '' → App Store… → Purchased''.

=== Windows ===
You can always [https://mountainduck.io/buy#lookup lookup] the registration key that is sent to you after buying Mountain Duck for Windows.



== Known Issues ==

=== Finder.app will write .DS_Store files to the remote volume ===
You can workaround this with setting `defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true`.

=== Saving a file in TextEdit.app will attempt to create a folder `/Temporary Items` on the remote volume. On some servers this may fail due to a permission failure or because the name of the folder is not allowed as in S3. 

You will get the error message `Bucket name is not DNS compatible. Please contact your web hosting service provider for assistance.`.

=== Writing files to S3 compatible third party service provider may fail ===
The S3 interoperable service must support [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/mpuoverview.html multipart uploads].