Ticket #180 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 5 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

Portable Cyberduck

Reported by: Gand Owned by: dkocher
Priority: normal Milestone: 2.5.5
Component: core Version: 2.5.4
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: gand@… Platform:
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Description

Add a way to set the preference folder path so that, running Cyberduck via script, can be opened on an external drive (USB thumb, etc) taking all settings with you. A portable app is launched via a script that set the prefernce folder path to the portable drive and then open the app. Have a look at  Adium script or  AbiWord script to easy understand how it work. This was inspired by  portableapps.com. All OS X portable apps are  here.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by dkocher

  • Status changed from new to assigned
  • Milestone set to 2.5.5

comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by anonymous

  • Status changed from assigned to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by dkocher

  • Status changed from closed to reopened
  • Resolution fixed deleted

Must also find a way to save the ~/Library/Preferences/ch.sudo.cyberduck.plist at a alternate location.

comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by Gand

By the moment, quite all Portable apps use ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist on HD.

comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by dkocher

But that defeats the idea of a portable application.

comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by dkocher

One can set the property application.support.path; this is where Cyberduck will save its History, Queue items and bookmarks. This is by default ~/Library/Application Support/Cyberduck. 

defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck application.support.path "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Something"

There is still no solution for the general Preferences in ~/Library/Preferences/.

comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by dkocher

  • Cc gand@… added
  • Status changed from reopened to closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

Ignore the above instructions. Info.plist of Cyberduck.app must now have (or similar) 

	<key>application.support.path</key>
	<string>/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck/Preferences</string>
	<key>application.preferences.path</key>
	<string>/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck/Preferences/Preferences.plist</string>

You can also write these settings using the defaults command (use an absolute pathname to refer to the Info.plist and omit the plist extension) 

defaults write "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck.app/Contents/Info" application.support.path "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck/Preferences"
defaults write "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck.app/Contents/Info" application.preferences.path "/Volumes/Movable Disk/Cyberduck/Preferences/Preferences.plist"
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