Issue with admin on Windows

[Philippe Lhoste]

Hello

I just installed the latest version of Cyberduck (4.3.1) on my Windows 7 computer at work and, of course, I wanted to import my FileZilla bookmarks to test it quickly.
I found no option to import them, so I searched the Internet, and found a ticket about this feature, marked as closed.
Searching the help, I found out it is supposed to import them on start (it didn't) since I have FileZilla still installed, and I should be able to drag'n'drop the bookmarks.xml file from Explorer to Cyberduck, but it won't allow me to do that.
To be honest, the trick was described for Mac, so perhaps it wasn't implemented on Windows (the wiki page should be updated, perhaps).
I found in this group a message mentioning a config file, pointing to the http://trac.cyberduck.ch/wiki/help/en/faq#Wherearepreferencesandapplicationsettingssavedto to locate it, but I don't have such directory...
That, and the fact that a new empty bookmark was pointing at the name of the local administrator account I have to use to install stuff (I am restricted to a non-admin account for working, and I must enter admin credential when installing softwares) pushed me in the right direction: when I run Cyberduck just after the install, it runs with the account used to install it, not the current account!
The workaround is simple: close Cyberduck and run it again, with the current account.
And, indeed, it asks me now if I want to import FileZilla bookmarks!

All this story to help, perhaps, other people confused like me... :-)
I don't know if you can fix anything anyway.

Still, I am curious. Is this "import with drag'n'drop" working on Windows? If I drag the file and hover over the bookmark list, it proposes instead to upload to the site I hover over.
Ah, if I drag over an empty area, it shows a "+ la copie" tooltip (still in French after I switched to English and restarted!). I have to drag from outside Cyberduck directly into the empty area, because it I hover over a site, then go to the empty area, it doesn't switch the tooltip to the "copy" option. And when I drop the bookmarks.xml from FileZilla into Cyberduck, even after removing the ones it imported on start, it doesn't do anything.
So the feature seems a bit faulty (what if I want to import bookmarks from another computer, for example?).

I also found some other quirks, but I won't detail them there... :-)

Now to explore a bit more the capabilities of Cyberduck!

Thanks.

[David Kocher]

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for your feedback on your first hand experience with Cyberduck. I will try to summarize the issues you have seen:
* The application starts under admin privileges after installation. Please open a bug report for this at http://trac.cyberduck.ch/newticket as it looks like a bug.
* Importing bookmarks by dragging to the bookmarks view is supposed to work for .duck Cyberduck bookmark files exported previously by dragging to Windows Explorer or the Finder.app on OS X. It does not work for thirdparty application bookmark files. I have clarified the wiki at http://trac.cyberduck.ch/wiki/help/en/howto/bookmarks#ImportingBookmarks.


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[Philippe Lhoste]

On Friday, 24 May 2013 14:03:29 UTC+2, David Kocher wrote:

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for your feedback on your first hand experience with Cyberduck. I will try to summarize the issues you have seen:
 * The application starts under admin privileges after installation. Please open a bug report for this at http://trac.cyberduck.ch/newticket as it looks like a bug.
 * Importing bookmarks by dragging to the bookmarks view is supposed to work for .duck Cyberduck bookmark files exported previously by dragging to Windows Explorer or the Finder.app on OS X. It does not work for thirdparty application bookmark files. I have clarified the wiki at http://trac.cyberduck.ch/wiki/help/en/howto/bookmarks#ImportingBookmarks.

Thanks for the quick answer.
* I will try and open a bug. Indeed, if the currently logged in user can be detected in some way, it is better to start Cyberduck with this account. It would reduce confusion, like: "hey, I changed settings, and when I restarted, they were gone!", or this "no previous FTP bookmarks were detected" (because never run in admin mode).
* Indeed, it is a bit clearer; now. :-) But I still think it would be nice to allow explicit importing of bookmarks, when possible (ie. when they are in the form of a textual file, not in the registry or something). I might have my bookmarks on a USB key and I don't want to install FileZilla before installing Cyberduck just to be able to import these settings! :-D
Of course, it supposes the user knows how to find the settings for his previous application, but FTP users are generally technical people, so it shouldn't be a major obstacle. It looks more like just adding an option to select a file, since the parsing mechanism is already there.

Oh, a last bit of feedback: please, change the installer so that it asks whether I want an icon on the desktop! I have nearly zero icons there, and I want to keep it that way. And Microsoft made the stupid decision to require administrative rights to delete an icon from my own desktop (at least if installed with such level), so cleaning it is slow and require lot of typing! (admin account, admin password, etc.)

Regards.

[Philippe Lhoste]

Is Trac down? I get a 404 on your URL, on the previous one I opened: https://trac.cyberduck.ch/ticket/3073 and going upward is forbidden...

Oh, looks like it is back...

Tried to connect with my Google account, got an error:

InvalidOpenIDNamespace: Invalid OpenID Namespace u'http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0'

Will try later?