Add Hidden Configuration Options to Mountain Duck and Cyberduck

Tip

For Cyberduck CLI refer to Preferences

There are some settings which aren’t yet available in the Preferences either because they are not considered stable yet or not of general interest.

For Mountain Duck and Cyberduck you can add the property line in the format property=value to the default.properties file within the application support folder on Windows and macOS.

Important

You’ll have to create the default.properties file manually if it isn’t present yet!

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Quit Mountain Duck/Cyberduck

  2. Navigate into the application support folder.

    Note

    The application support folder is the same for Mountain Duck and Cyberduck.

  3. Check if there is a default.properties file available

    • If it is available, open it within a text editor of your choice, add the desired property line and save the file.

    • If the file isn’t available, follow the remaining steps.

  4. Open a text editor of your choice, for example, TextEdit (macOS) or Notepad (Windows), and add the desired property line.

  5. Save the file as a text file (txt) into the application support folder.

    Attention

    Avoid saving the file within the rich text format (rtf), as this causes Mountain Duck/Cyberduck to not recognize the property file after changing the file extension.

  6. Close the text editor.

  7. Replace the file name and extension with default.properties.

  8. Confirm that you want to change the file extension if your operating system warns you about it.

In case you don’t see the file extensions you can reveal them by following the instructions for your respective operating system.

You can reveal the file extensions for all files by ticking the checkmark Show all filename extensions within Finder → Preferences → Advanced.

Alternatively, you can reveal the file extension for a specific file by opening the Finder info window on the wanted file and removing the checkmark Hide extension within the Name & Extension section.

Activate Hidden Configuration Options Through Terminal.app

macOS only

Type the defaults command in the format below in a Terminal.app (in \Applications\Utilities) window and restart Mountain Duck.

defaults write io.mountainduck <property> <value>