Finder cannot write to FTP on macOS

1 min readApr 17, 2024

I was recently using FTP on macOS and after having errors when writing files to the server I realised that macOS Finder does not allow to write to FTP servers!

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Thanks for the reply. Your answer helps but I can't say that it makes any sense. Seems like a simple feature that users…

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FTP Read only issue on Finder app

Hello thank you for your reply, The volume I'm trying to make changes is a server volume not the volume that belongs to…

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Alternative tools

Mountain duck

Mountain Duck

Cyberduck for mounting volumes in the file explorer. Available for Mac and Windows.

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Filezilla

FileZilla

FileZilla - The free FTP solution for both client and server. Filezilla is open source software distributed free of…

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Others

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