Cyberduck/Mountain Duck : careful!

If anyone else has had a discount code from Cyberduck for their new MountainDuck product, please be wary of trialling it at the moment, IF you already use CuberDuck

I installed Mountain Duck as a trial, was not convinced I would use it, and deleted the app.
But it unregistered my existing Cyberduck app , and deleted all my bookmarks too…
Its going to take some work to recreate them from scratch if I cant restore some preferences file from a backup…

Thanks for the “heads-up”. I might have fallen into that trap.

They have replied to say that if you install Mountain Duck at all, you must install a newer version of Cyberduck as Mountain Duck changes the saved preferences file location.
And I am happy to report it does…

Do NOT use FileZilla. POS installed all kinds of cr@p on my system WITHOUT admin privileges being expressly given. It installs “Advanced Mac Cleaner” which took me forever to fully scrub from my system.

Looks like you downloaded it not from the Mozilla site, but from some of the crap respositories.

The official site is https://filezilla-project.org/ and the installer contains zero per cent junkware.

I downloaded it just now from filezilla-project to test and the thing had an invalid code signature.
There’s also reports in their forums of the sourceforge download being infected.

I would recommend ForkLift over anything mentioned in this thread so far.

I still use Cyberduck 4.7.1, and stick to it by the principle “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”. Unless it stops working, I do not see why I should go Mountain Duck.

I do use FileZilla on PC sometimes, but my personal favorite remains WS FTP95 LE I have been using since the commencement of times, and where all my shortcuts are.

[quote=245517:@Michel Bujardet]Looks like you downloaded it not from the Mozilla site, but from some of the crap respositories.

The official site is https://filezilla-project.org/ and the installer contains zero per cent junkware.[/quote]

Nope. From SourceForge, which is what filezilla-project.org directly links to…

https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=37489

The site admin CLAIMS the junk is an OPTIONAL install. However, declining the junk did NOT prevent it being installed.
Having worked as a Windows Sys Admin for years I’m super careful about installers, and read every option presented.

[quote=245534:@David Andrews]https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=37489

The site admin CLAIMS the junk is an OPTIONAL install. However, declining the junk did NOT prevent it being installed.
Having worked as a Windows Sys Admin for years I’m super careful about installers, and read every option presented.[/quote]

Yeek. These people are crazy.

I use CyberDuck 4.7.2 and am happy with it.

ForkLift offers the luxury of displaying a twin paned window for easy drag and drop, but I’m not going to pay for completely different software, just to have that benefit.

I’ve not used CyberDuck for a few years. I always found it to be slow. It is written in Java, which explains why it was sluggish.

Not anymore. That was 4.2.x. Version 4.7.x is compiled and does not need any Java.

It remains kind of sluggish when it insists on checking the entire content of a folder to make sure you are not uploading a file of the same name. Yet, I have found it to be extremely reliable, which for me comes first.

Hmmm… I have been using CyberDuck v 4.4.4 … didn’t even realize any updates had happened…

@Dave,
Just click on the word “Cyberduck” in the menubar, and then on “Check for Updates”.

I also used to expect to be notified of updates, but it seems you have to self check.

Oh I did that :slight_smile: , but I’m staying with “ain’t fixed, don’t broke it” scenario

4.7.2 is rather nice. But I have to confess I kept 4.2.1 in the applications folder just in case :wink:

I will probably never check Mountain Duck after reading how sloppy they are with customer shortcuts.

Yikes!

Reminds me of the time I downloaded cracked versions of my software; I found in one copy, the executable file was a whole 20mb bigger; which suggests that the cracker had injected some other code in my app and probably to make it do nefarious things.

[quote=245379:@Jeff Tullin]I installed Mountain Duck as a trial, was not convinced I would use it, and deleted the app.
But it unregistered my existing Cyberduck app , and deleted all my bookmarks too…
Its going to take some work to recreate them from scratch if I cant restore some preferences file from a backup…[/quote]
This is something that we as developers should pay attention to, so we don’t cause the same problem for our users.

So basically the new app, converted the format of the files, so that the old app couldn’t read them any more? It simply should have imported the existing documents, leaving the older versions there for the user to delete if they choose to do so.

[quote=245603:@Michel Bujardet]Not anymore. That was 4.2.x. Version 4.7.x is compiled and does not need any Java.

It remains kind of sluggish when it insists on checking the entire content of a folder to make sure you are not uploading a file of the same name. Yet, I have found it to be extremely reliable, which for me comes first.[/quote]

Are you sure. I thought it just contained the JRE now. On the Mac, if you view the app bundle you’ll find the JRE included.

Sure you hadn’t just recompiled the Windows app in the latest Xojo? :wink: