User Interface
User Interface
Mountain Duck runs in the status bar (macOS) and taskbar (Windows).
Find the mounted volume in Finder. Choose Go → Computer or choose Finder → General → Show these items on the desktop: Connected servers to make it appear on your desktop.
Right-click on the taskbar and select Taskbar setting → Notification area → Select which icons appear on the taskbar. Make sure Mountain Duck is selected in the list.
Auto start
You can choose to automatically open Mountain Duck when logging in. Refer to Preferences. Re-opening the application will open previously mounted volumes. If you choose Enable Login Item and Save Workspace in Preferences → General and do not manually eject the volume prior to reboot it will reconnect after login.
Bookmarks
Choose Open Connection… to add a new bookmark or
Labels
Note
Version 4.0 or later required.
Assign multiple labels to bookmarks. Bookmarks are grouped in folders in the status bar menu by their assigned labels.
Connect Mode
Online: Do not synchronize any file to your computer. You can only access this volume when a connection is possible to the server or cloud storage. Files are accessed on demand from the remote when opened and do not take up any local disk space.
Smart Synchronization: Files opened are made available for later offline access. You can explicitly make files available offline using the context menu.
Read-only volume
Select Options: Read Only in the bookmark to mount the volume as read-only and disallow any write operations on the remote disk.
Drive Letter (Windows)
Always assign the same drive letter to the mounted volume.
Filter
Note
Version 4.4 or later required.
You can search for bookmarks with the filter input field in the menu. Bookmarks not matching the input are greyed out.
Bookmark Status
The bookmark can show three different status lights:
No light: No current connection to this bookmark.
Green light: You’re currently connected to this bookmark. The bookmark is completely synced and idle.
Orange light: You’re currently connected to this bookmark. There is at least ane active process.
Connect
Choose
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.
Connnect using command line
You can mount volumes using your command-line interface (CLI) by opening a bookmark file.
Use
open -a ''Mountain Duck'' ~/Library/Group Containers/G69SCX94XU.duck/Library/Application Support/duck/Bookmarks/*.duck
in Terminal.app
Enter the commmand <path to Mountainduck.exe> %AppData%/Cyberduck/Bookmarks/<Bookmarkfile> in cmd.exe.
Notifications
Notifications of the connection status are posted to the Notification Center of the operating system.
Filesystem mounted
Filesystem unmounted
Errors: 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.
Disconnect
Choose
Choose File → Eject in Finder.app for the selected volume or control click to choose Eject.
Disconnect using command line
You can unmount volumes using your command-line interface (CLI). Use umount <bookmark nickname> in Terminal.app.
In File Explorer in “This PC” view or the sidebar on the left of the File Explorer window, open the context menu for your mounted drive and select Disconnect.
Disconnect using command line
You can unmount volumes using your commmand-line interface (CLI). Use net use <drive letter>: /delete in cmd.exe
Copying Files
Drag files in Finder.app an macOS or File Explorer on Windows to move and copy files. You can also access the mounted volume with any other application and command-line interface.
Context Menu in Finder and Windows File Explorer
A context menu in Finder on macOS and File Explorer on Windows allows various actions on files.
Sync Options
Keep Offline on local disk or Delete on local disk to manage caching status. Refer to Sync Options
Reload
Changes from the server are not immediately visible. The directory listing in Finder.app may become out of date when another application is adding, removing, or modifying files on the server. Choose Reload from the Finder Extension Menu. On Windows, you can force File Explorer to refresh the directory listing with F5.
Enable the Index Files option in Preferences → Sync to allow new files on the remote storage to be detected periodically.
Share
Create Download Share: Create an URL to share with someone else to allow downloading the file or folder.
Create Upload Share: Create an URL to share with someone else to allow uploading files to the selected folder.
Right-click files on a mounted drive will open a menu with items to copy & open HTTP URLs or create share links of files. This will include the Origin URL, HTTP URLs and temporary signed URLs in S3.
Copy URL
Open URL
Read more about sharing options.
Versions
Quick Look or Restore previous versions of documents on servers supporting versioning. Read more about versioning.
New 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 an SSH connection to the server in Terminal for SFTP bookmarks.
Attention
This feature is not supported in the version available in the Mac App Store.
Info Panel
Right-click on a file and choose Info to change permissions, ACLs, metadata, and other service provider-specific settings on a file. Refer to Info Windows.
Lock/Unlock Vault
Lock or unlock a Cryptomator Vault.
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 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.