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Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by bsimpson »

CSDude wrote: post #7
bsimpson wrote: post #2

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

FTP is useful for more than just deployment, just regular file transfers are much more easier and still in use by many.

I presumed so, I just can't remember the last time I saw anyone using FTP.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by signaler »

volaski wrote: post #6

I'm not familiar with this space but is this the first of its kind? Or are there better ones? I actually think I may want to use it to manage my s3 assets. Would be helpful to know if there are alternatives and why this is better

There's quite a few programs like this, and I've tried them all. What makes this look promising is the peeps behind Cyberduck fame are creating it. I always wanted that feature in Cyberduck, where you can mount any arbitrary legacy file system. All the others I've tried are half-baked attempts and horribly buggy.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by wlesieutre »

pbreit wrote: post #9
bsimpson wrote: post #2

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

I'm surprised FTP hasn't been built in to Finder/FileExplorer yet.

It is, but it's (at least historically) not well implemented. http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/quick-tip-ftp-into-a...

Used to be that the whole Finder would hang while waiting for a response from the server. I haven't tried recently to say whether that's still true.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by wiffleballmike »

bsimpson wrote: post #2

I'm surprised there's still a market for innovation in FTP clients. Most everyone I know does automated deployments now with Heroku, AppEngine, git push, etc..

There are many workplaces (newspaper design desk) where FTP is still the goto for sending files too big for email. Any tools to makes the experience as simple as possible are more than welcome.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by LeoPanthera »

volaski wrote: post #6

I'm not familiar with this space but is this the first of its kind? Or are there better ones? I actually think I may want to use it to manage my s3 assets. Would be helpful to know if there are alternatives and why this is better

Transmit can also do this: https://panic.com/transmit/

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by nticompass »

Currently I am using http://www.swish-sftp.org/ on Windows and http://macfusionapp.org/ (via https://osxfuse.github.io/, see also https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/SSHFS) on OS X to mount SFTP servers.

Mountain Duck looks promising. For whatever reason the current solutions for SSHFS on Windows/Mac are slightly out of date.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by LeoPanthera »

bsimpson wrote: post #11
CSDude wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FTP is useful for more than just deployment, just regular file transfers are much more easier and still in use by many.

I presumed so, I just can't remember the last time I saw anyone using FTP.

Maybe not FTP, but I use SFTP all the time.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

benjaminl wrote: post #10
volaski wrote: post #6

I'm not familiar with this space but is this the first of its kind? Or are there better ones? I actually think I may want to use it to manage my s3 assets. Would be helpful to know if there are alternatives and why this is better

I am a happy customer of ExpanDrive ( http://www.expandrive.com/ ) which is very similar, except that it is cross platform and looks like it support more back-ends. ExpandDrive recently greatly enhanced their product by providing background uploads.

Cyberduck (and apparently Mtn. Duck, judging by the screenshots) is equally cross-platform; which is to say, runs on recent-ish versions of OSX and Windows. Expandrive looks decent, but for my purposes fuse is good enough, and free.

Re: Mountain Duck – Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer

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Post by nosuchthing »

volaski wrote: post #6

I'm not familiar with this space but is this the first of its kind? Or are there better ones? I actually think I may want to use it to manage my s3 assets. Would be helpful to know if there are alternatives and why this is better

I'd assume this is some form of iSCSI or SMB/samba?
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