Dannymac22 wrote:
My question was not HOW to change the default ftp/sftp server
First of all, maybe you should clarify exactly what you are asking about. I assumed it was a typo above, but after the second one, I have to ask, are you talking about ftp clients or servers? That's an important distinction because you are asking, and we are responding, to questions about ftp clients. None of this has anything to do with servers.
it was WHETHER you could change the default in the MacOS.
I answered that above. Apple has officially deprecated ftp. That means there is no answer. There are multiple methods to change the default association with the ftp URL scheme. Some are deprecated and may or may not work. Others are new, but not necessarily related to ftp, which is, itself, deprecated, and regardless of protocol, may not work in some situations. Whether the Fetch developers know anything about any of that is a question you will have to ask them.
You can easily change the default web browser in the MacOS in SysPrefs/General.
That's a self-defining answer. If Apple provides an easy method to change a setting, then you can change that setting. If there is no easy method, but it seems like there was a difficult one in the past, but it involves something that Apple has officially disavowed, then it probably means "no".
And the answer is ... you need to edit a Mac "macOS URL Scheme" prefpane to choose the default application. A simple way to do this is with SwiftDefaultApps, which can be installed in SysPrefs. That lays it all out in a nice user interface where you can choose what apps you want to use as defaults for email, ftp, web browsing, news reading and messaging. I guess Fetch has an option where you can do this for ftp.
Why do you think any of that is true? Did you read that on the internet? The internet isn't true you know.
The SwiftDefaultApps hasn't been updated in years. A quick review of the issues on the GitHub page shows that none of its developers has even responded to any issues in over a year. One of those issues is, in fact, that it doesn't work at all, so there's that.
Not entirely sure how default apps are established in the first place.
The whole concept of "default apps" is quit complicated. You are talking about a URL scheme, which is a very specific kind of association used in a very specific context. Furthermore, you are talking about a very specific URL scheme in that very specific context. This particular specific URL scheme in this specific context in this complicated system has been publicly disavowed and deprecated by Apple. In short, it's not looking good. 😄