Where does Mountainduck store the general preferences?

[derStephan]

Hi,

I want to deploy Mountainduck to 100 Windows users and I want do deliver our default preferences (like caches, default sync mode etc.) with it.

I installed it on a fresh workstation and created these settings but I cannot find these preferences anywhere:

• %AppData%\Cyberduck
• %AppData%\iterate_GmbH
• %AppData%\Mountainduck

I know that there is the possibility of default.properties but it was said before that this is not the right way to go.

So how do you deploy Mountainduck with msxi, the license and the specific defaults to a high number of workstations including some terminal servers?

[AliveDevil]

You can apply the license to C:\ProgramData\Cyberduck (you need to create the folder first).

The usual location for user preferences is %AppData%\Cyberduck\mountainduck.user.config - however, we are working on a bugfix, where Mountain Duck, when launched without the folder %AppData%\Cybrduck already existing saving to %LocalAppData%\Packages\io.mountainduck_…\LocalCache. So, look in that location, for configuration files (we will migrate them after a future bugfix release). When the folder already exists Windows won't redirect to the Package-local path, but the real AppData-path.

default.properties is the best way to pre-configure Mountain Duck, due to it being a simple Key=Value-pair file, whereas the User.config is an XML configuration file.

So, for a deployment:

• Add-AddxProvisionedPackage -Online -SkipLicense -PackagePath "Mountain Duck.msix"
• Copy the license to C:\ProgramData\Cyberduck
• Create user-specific configuration files in %AppData%\Cyberduck, before the application starts, or restart the application after first launch.

It's on the backlog to allow configuration through ProgramData\Cyberduck, and loading profiles from ProgramData\Cyberduck\Profiles.

[derStephan]

Thanks for the information. You are great and so is Mountainduck

[derStephan]

The usual location for user preferences is %AppData%\Cyberduck\mountainduck.user.config

I would like to have the general preferences not changeable by the indivudial user. Would ist be possible to have the config in C:\ProgramData\Cyberduck as well and hide the "Preferences..." button in the menu in that case?

[dkocher]

You can control the display of specific tabs in Preferences using the properties

preferences.general.enable=true
preferences.loginitem.enable=true
preferences.sync.enable=true
preferences.notifications.enable=true
preferences.versions.enable=true
preferences.profiles.enable=true
preferences.connection.enable=true
preferences.bandwidth.enable=true
preferences.language.enable=true
preferences.s3.enable=true
preferences.sftp.enable=false
preferences.ftp.enable=false
preferences.googlestorage.enable=true
preferences.update.enable=true
preferences.cryptomator.enable=true
preferences.support.enable=true

[derStephan]

Alright.

Can I put each and every setting from user.config in default.properties? default.properties is not fully documented, right?

user.config is an XML file, default.properties is just an text file.

Can I transfer the following from user.config <setting name="fs.sync.mode" value="online" />
to default.properties fs.sync.mode=online

So I can create a fully customized default.properties after just setting the correct preferences in the GUI?

This would be more than perfect.

[derStephan]

This would be more than perfect.

...if default.properties can be placed to C:\ProgramData\Cyberduck next to the license. This does not seem to be the case at the moment.

preferences.cryptomator.enable=false

does not seem to work, the cryptomator tab is still there. But cryptomator.enable=false does work fine, the tab in settings is gone.