Cyberduck

Connection Profiles

Posted on October 27, 2021 by Sofie Vogt

Cyberduck 8 and Mountain Duck 4.8 introduce a new Profiles preferences tab that allows to install additional connection profiles on demand. This makes it much easier to connect to various hosting and cloud storage service providers without the need to lookup connection details other than credentials.

Usage

You can either scroll through the list of profiles or use the Search function. To install a connection profile simply enable the corresponding checkbox. The profile will be downloaded and saved in the “Profiles” folder of the application support directory right away. Since Mountain Duck and Cyberduck refer to the same application support directory the connection profiles are shared between both applications. Disabling the checkbox deactivates the connection profile for the currently used application.

Providers

Service providers that define connection profiles and open an issue to request the connection profile to be added to the default repository.

macOS Monterey

Posted on October 25, 2021 by David Kocher

As the latest version of macOS now numbered 12 will arrive later today both Cyberduck and Mountain Duck are fully compatible.

ARM support for Cyberduck CLI

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Yves Langisch

Cyberduck CLI is now available for the growing ARM ecosystem. Run the universal file transfer tool on AWS EC2 A1 instance types or Raspberry Pis for example. Both DEB and RPM package types are available in 32bit and 64bit for ARM. The regular installation instructions apply.

Connecting to different Sharepoint libraries

Posted on January 12, 2021 by David Kocher

Cyberduck 7.8 and Mountain Duck 4.4 improve support for Microsoft Sharepoint connections. The Microsoft SharePoint Site connection profile now allows to connect to specific sites. The regular Microsoft SharePoint connection profile adds support to browse different libraries. Refer to our extended documentation for both OneDrive and SharePoint.

Big Sur

Posted on November 10, 2020 by David Kocher

We have made some adjustments in version 7.7 of Cyberduck to support the new window appearance introduced in macOS 11. Switching between bookmarks and browser view is now always visible in the toolbar.

The bookmark proxy icon is now displayed inline with the other toolbar controls including the bookmark nickname replacing the previous window title.

Additionally the input field to search for bookmarks or files is now located in the toolbar and treated accordingly.

When horizontal space is limited, the toolbar can display the Search button in place of the search bar. When people click the Search button, the bar expands; when they click elsewhere in the window, the search bar collapses and the toolbar displays the button again.

Restore from Glacier

Posted on September 10, 2020 by David Kocher

We have made available a feature in Cyberduck 7.6 and later to restore files from Glacier storage class in S3. You can temporarily restore files from Glacier using File → Restore for files with the storage class set to Glacier. The file will be restored using standard retrieval and expire in 2 days after retrieval. Restoring takes some time and attempting to download an item not yet restored will lead to an error The operation is not valid for the object’s storage class.

Lock and unlock Cryptomator Vaults

Posted on September 10, 2020 by David Kocher

The latest version of Cyberuck and Mountain Duck now allow to manually lock and unlock Cryptomator vaults. This is useful as an alternative to the automated discovery of vaults with configurable in Preferences → Cryptomator → Auto detect and open vault in browser.

Lock and unlock vault stored in S3 in Cyberduck.

Mountain Duck

Lock and unlock vault in Finder in S3 bucket mounted with Mountain Duck. Refer to our documentation.

Cyberduck 7

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Laura Vogt

With Cyberduck 7 we introduce the possibility of a multi-segmented download. Multi-Segmented downloads offer the functionality to download one file over several connections. This has the advantage that some files can be downloaded faster and the download process is less error-prone.

In previous versions of Cyberduck, there was only the possibility to run downloads over a single serial connection, the multisegmented download feature multiplies the connections making a parallel download process possible. The following diagram visualizes the two types of download described.

You can expect at least a doubled download speed if you use the multisegment download functionality. Some additional time is required to concatenate the downloaded segments after the download itself is complete. We have collected the following data in download tests with downloads from Amazon S3 and a Minio server running locally.

	AWS EC2¹	Local System²
Regular Download	20 MByte/s	200 Mbyte/s
Segmented Download	40 Mbyte/s	1 GByte/s

¹ AWS EC2: T2.Medium against a regular S3 endpoint

² Local Minio S3 Server feeding data from local NVMe-PCIe-SSD

The described feature can be turned on or off in Preferences → Transfers → General → Downloads.

Refer to the full changelog for many more enhancements and bug fixes.

Mountain Duck 3

Posted on April 30, 2019 by David Kocher

Work Offline with Smart Synchronization

Version 3 adds a smart synchronization feature to add offline support. Files are synchronized to the local disk when opened to allow offline usage and changes are uploaded in the background as soon as a connection is available. Dropbox like experience with your preferred on-premise enterprise storage or cloud storage. With the additional option to choose which files and folders are available for offline use. Other files are visible but only stored as placeholders. These do not take up disk space on the computer and are downloaded on demand only.

Edit files Offline and upload changes when connectivity to remote server is restored.

Badge Icons

Badge icons in the Finder and Windows Explorer indicate the sync status of files – easily assess if the file is only available when online or is synced to your computer for offline editing. Synchronization with the remote storage is paused and resumed automatically depending on your network connection. The application icon in the system tray animates when a background transfer is currently in progress.

Upgrade

Mountain Duck 3 is a paid upgrade. Existing customers get an upgrade discount between 40% and 100% depending on the date of purchase. Please upgrade your license before updating.

Sharing Large Files

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Laura Vogt

You want to grant one or several people temporary access to large files? Email is not an option and providers offering a web interface are costly, limit the file size or tend to be unreliable. Cyberduck or Mountain Duck in combination with cloud storage providers allows you to share files without relying on a third-party website.

Auto Expiring Links

With Cyberduck or Mountain Duck and those cloud storage providers, you can share links with third parties that expire after an hour, days or months. Between the protocols, the expiration time of the shared links may vary. Contrary to other solutions there is no restrictions on bandwidth or the number of downloads.

Supported Providers

In the following section, you will find a short guide on how to share large files with Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Dropbox or OpenStack Swift cloud storage providers.

Step by Step

Open Cyberduck or Mountain Duck and connect to your Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Dropbox or OpenStack Swift bookmark.
Navigate to or upload the file you want to share
Right-click on the file, choose the option Copy URL in the context menu and click on the Pre-Signed URL (within Dropbox it is named Temporary URL) with the wanted expiration time. In Cyberduck the same option is available in Edit → Copy URL→ Signed URL. Share the link with anyone you want to give access to.

Update See also our documentation on sharing options for different storage service providers.