Where Does Cyberduck Store Bookmarks and History?
Where Cyberduck keeps its bookmark files, connection history, and profiles on macOS and Windows.
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Cyberduck keeps bookmarks as .duck files in a Bookmarks folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Cyberduck on website macOS builds, a Containers path for the App Store build, %APPDATA%\Cyberduck on Windows. History and profiles sit beside them.
The two macOS locations cause most missing bookmark reports. Switching between store and website builds strands files on the other side of the sandbox boundary. Passwords stay out of all these files in the system keychain, so exports share safely.
Where Cyberduck stores this, by platform
~/Library/Application Support/Cyberduck/Bookmarks
Bookmarks/, History/, and Profiles/ here for the website build. Finder hides Library; use Go > Go to Folder. App Store builds nest the same tree under Containers/ch.sudo.cyberduck, so check there after build switches.
%APPDATA%\Cyberduck\Bookmarks
Same .duck bookmark files under Roaming. Paste the path into Explorer. Mountain Duck shares conventions but keeps its own folder, so the two apps never pool bookmarks.
Frequently asked questions
how do i migrate cyberduck bookmarks
Copy the Bookmarks folder to the same path on the new machine with Cyberduck closed (macOS website build: ~/Library/Application Support/Cyberduck/Bookmarks). Profiles/ travels with it for custom connection types. History restores separately and matters less.
what format are cyberduck bookmarks
In Bookmarks/ as .duck files, one per saved connection with credentials references. Dragging bookmarks to Documents exports copies Spotlight can index. The files exclude passwords by design, which live in the system keychain instead.
why did my cyberduck bookmarks vanish after reinstalling
The Mac App Store build sandboxes them under ~/Library/Containers/ch.sudo.cyberduck/... while the website build uses plain Application Support. Moving between builds means copying Bookmarks across that boundary. Check both spots before assuming bookmarks are lost.
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