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FileZilla

filezilla

FileZilla 3 is the next generation (S)FTP-client from the FileZilla project.

Detected by filezilla | macOS, Linux, Windows |filezilla-project.org

Sync it filezilla.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

FileZilla in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

<Setting name="Proxy password"><Setting name="FTP Proxy password">

Lifted into your secret store; the rest of the file syncs.

· filters.xml Sync

· sitemanager.xml Never synced

· recentservers.xml Never synced

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/filezilla.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "filezilla"

name = "FileZilla"

homepage = "https://filezilla-project.org"

description = "FileZilla 3 is the next generation (S)FTP-client from the FileZilla project."

icon = "SimpleIcons:filezilla"

detect = ["filezilla"]

# https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FAQ, "Where does FileZilla store all its

# sites and settings?": "On most systems, sites and settings are stored in the

# ~/.config/filezilla directory. The odd exception is Windows, where the

# settings are stored in the %APPDATA%/FileZilla directory."

# COptions::GetUnadjustedSettingsDir in src/interface/Options.cpp is the same

# thing in code: on Windows CSIDL_APPDATA + "FileZilla"; everywhere else

# $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/filezilla/ first, then ~/.config/filezilla/. That is the

# XDG config home under all three platform names — including macOS, which

# FileZilla treats like any other Unix — so one [configHome] root covers it.

# (Windows spells the folder FileZilla rather than filezilla; the filesystem

# there is case-insensitive, so the resolved path is the same directory.)

# FileZilla falls back to a legacy ~/.filezilla/ when neither XDG location

# exists, which only affects installs that never moved.

# The file names come from the same tree: "filezilla.xml" in Options.cpp,

# "filters.xml" in filter.cpp. Not listed: queue.sqlite3 (the transfer queue,

# queue_storage.cpp) and layout.xml (window geometry, wrapengine.cpp), both

# per-machine state.

paths = [

"[configHome]/filezilla/filezilla.xml",

"[configHome]/filezilla/filters.xml",

]

exclude = []

# Both of these hold server credentials as written by the user.

# src/interface/sitemanager.cpp keeps the Site Manager in "sitemanager.xml",

# and src/interface/recentserverlist.cpp reads

# GetSettingsFile("recentservers") into a deque of ServerWithCredentials.

# The password is a plain <Pass> element inside each <Server> — see the

# annotated fzdefaults.xml example at

# https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Fzdefaults.xml, whose Kiosk mode setting

# exists precisely because FileZilla otherwise "will ... write passwords to

# disk".

secret = [

"[configHome]/filezilla/sitemanager.xml",

"[configHome]/filezilla/recentservers.xml",

]

# filezilla.xml is worth syncing — it is the whole Settings dialog — but two

# of the options in it are passwords. src/interface/Options.cpp's option table

# declares { "Proxy password", string, ... } and { "FTP Proxy password",

# string, ... }, and COptions::SetXmlValue writes each option as

# <Setting name="...">value</Setting>, so a line prefix reaches them.

# XML has no key_path syntax here, which is why this is a prefix rule.

[[secret_paths]]

file = "[configHome]/filezilla/filezilla.xml"

match = { prefix = [

"<Setting name=\"Proxy password\">",

"<Setting name=\"FTP Proxy password\">",

] }

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/filezilla. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these keeps all credential files out.