Settings — FlyingFiles manual

File → Settings... (on macOS also Cmd+,). The window has five groups and scrolls on smaller screens. OK saves the changes and applies them immediately; Cancel or Esc discards them.

macOS: If you have several windows open, a change takes effect immediately in the window from which you opened Settings. The other windows pick up the new values the next time the app starts.

Panels and files

Field	Default	Effect
Show hidden files	yes	the same as View → Show Hidden Files
Refresh local files when entering a folder	yes	when off: going back to a folder on disk you have already visited shows the remembered list (faster, but it may be out of date)
Remember the cursor on the folder you leave	yes	after going to the parent folder, the cursor lands on the folder you came from; when off: at the top of the list
Left panel default sort	Name, Ascending	column (Name, Size, Modified date, Permissions) and direction
Right panel default sort	Name, Ascending	same as above
Size unit	Bytes (B)	Bytes (B), Kilobytes (KB) or Megabytes (MB) in the Size column

Copying and moving

Field	Default	Effect
Default button in the conflicts dialog	Skip Duplicates	which button in the File Conflicts dialog `Enter` selects
*After copy/move, remove macOS metadata files (._, .DS_Store)**	no	cleans up these files in the destination folders (more)

Network connections

Field	Default	Range	Effect
FTP/SFTP timeout	10 s	0.1–600 s	how long to wait for a connection to the server
FTP/SFTP transfer timeout	3 s	0.5–600 s	how long to wait for data during a transfer before the app decides the server is not responding
Retry FTP/SFTP on timeout	yes		retries the transfer after a timeout
Retry count	3	0–100	how many times to retry (available when retrying is on)
Verify FTP/SFTP copy integrity	no		verifies each file with a SHA-256 checksum (more)
Fast FTP/SFTP (no upfront conflict scan or date preservation)	no		fast mode
Refresh FTP/SFTP when entering a folder	yes		when off: server folders you have already visited show the remembered list
FTP/SFTP - full details	yes		the conversation with the server in the connecting, preparation, transfer and download windows
Network share connect timeout	10 s	1–120 s	macOS: how long to wait for a share to mount from a favorite path

New timeouts apply to connections made after the change; transfer options also apply to connections that are already open.

Appearance and language

Field	Default	Effect
Theme	System	System (follows the system), Light or Dark
Font	(system)	the font family for the whole app; "(system)" is the system monospaced font (Menlo on macOS, Consolas on Windows)
Font size	12 px	8–32 px; empty field = the system default size
Row spacing	4 px	0–20 px; less = more rows on screen
Language	Polski	Polski or English — the same as the Language menu

After you increase the font size, column headers may not fit — widen the columns by dragging their edges.

File preview

Field	Default	Effect
Wrap photo and film browsing (after the last one go back to the first)	no	the arrow keys in the preview go from the last file to the first and vice versa
Browse everything viewable with arrows (photos and films together)	no	photos and videos in one sequence instead of separately; takes effect from the next `F3`

App files

Everything the app saves is in the settings folder:

	Path
macOS	`~/Library/Application Support/FlyingFiles/` (in Finder: Go → Go to Folder…, then paste the path)
Windows	`%APPDATA%\FlyingFiles\` (paste it into the File Explorer address bar)

File	Contents
`settings.toml`	settings, panel paths, window size, column widths, saved connections (without passwords), favorite paths and terminals
`settings.toml.bak.1` … `.bak.5`	previous versions of the settings file
`settings.toml.bak.0`	a one-time copy of the file from before its first save (never overwritten)
`network-mounts.toml`	macOS: network share addresses for mounting shares again
`logs/transfers.log`	the log of transfers and server conversations (passwords masked); older parts `.1`–`.3`

Server passwords are stored in the macOS Keychain or in Windows Credential Manager, under the name FlyingFiles FTP.

settings.toml is a plain text file in TOML format. You can read and edit it while the app is closed — the app keeps any keys it does not recognize.

Common tasks

Restoring the default settings

Quit the app and rename settings.toml (e.g. to settings.old.toml). The next time it starts, the app begins with the default settings. Saved connections, favorite paths and terminals are in the same file — with a fresh file they will be gone.

Undoing an unwanted change

Quit the app, copy the backup you want, settings.toml.bak.N, over settings.toml, and start the app.

Moving settings to another computer

Copy settings.toml to the settings folder on the new computer (with the app closed). Connections, favorite paths and terminals come with it, but passwords do not — you enter them the first time you connect to each server. The file works across macOS and Windows, but in that case you need to fix local paths (e.g. in favorite paths).

Turning off the transfer log

The log helps diagnose copying problems and never leaves your computer. If you do not want it, start the app with the environment variable FLYINGFILES_TRANSFER_LOG=0. The FLYINGFILES_TRANSFER_LOG_DIR variable points to a different log folder, and FLYINGFILES_CONFIG_DIR to a different settings folder.