Moving files between SFTP and OneDrive on Mac — anyone have a clean workflow for this?
Posted by G_1_3_S_0_N@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 9 comments
Company is halfway through migrating from legacy SFTP servers to OneDrive. On Mac I'm constantly switching between the OneDrive app and a separate FTP client to move stuff around, which gets tedious fast.
The actual task is pretty simple — pull files from SFTP, organize them into the right OneDrive folder, sometimes the reverse. But the back and forth between two apps for what should be a five-minute job is adding up.
Is there a way to handle both connections in one place on Mac or is juggling two apps just the norm here?
Different-Jury-4764@reddit
rclone handles SFTP to OneDrive transfers well and works cleanly on Mac. You set up both as remotes in the rclone config, then run
rclone copy sftp:path onedrive:pathand it does the transfer directly without staging locally. For a GUI option on Mac, Cyberduck supports both SFTP and OneDrive natively so you can drag between them visually. If you want something that schedules recurring transfers automatically between SFTP and cloud storage, All Cloud Hub handles that for OneDrive and other major providers without needing command line setup.One-Cucumber6585@reddit
Ended up on for this. SFTP and OneDrive both open in the same window, move files directly between them. One app.
Commander One
karmak0smik@reddit
Transmit should do the trick, It has onedrive integration among other cloud providers.
couchdrop_tom@reddit
Disclosure: I work at Couchdrop.
This is exactly the use case we built for. You can connect your remote SFTP server and OneDrive to Couchdrop, then set up a scheduled automation that pulls from SFTP and drops files into the right OneDrive folder — no manual switching. If you still want Finder-style access, OneDrive mounts as an SFTP endpoint so your existing client covers both sides.
ptinsley@reddit
Rclone
machaus99@reddit
Panic Software's Transmit app does both
elatllat@reddit
bash + rsync would be my preference
ExceptionEX@reddit
what OS are the SFTP servers running?
can you create a SMB share of those files?
Honestly, the 365 ecosystem treats mac as a second class citizen and that is probably not the best OS to try and manage this task. I would recommend using a windows VM. and using something like the sharepoint migration tool provided by Microsoft.
miteycasey@reddit
Mount the drive and do it in finder.