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Transmit

Transmit is a polished macOS file-transfer client from Panic with native S3 support.

Install

Download from panic.com/transmit (paid, with free trial).

Configure

  1. Open Transmit and click + to add a server.
  2. Choose Amazon S3 as the protocol.
  3. Fill in:
FieldValue
Servers3.filebase.io
Port443
Access Key IDYour Filebase access key
SecretYour Filebase secret key
  1. Click More Options and set:
FieldValue
Regionauto
Path Style URLs✓ enabled
  1. Click Connect and save the favorite.

Common workflows

Upload, download, sync

Standard Transmit features apply: drag-and-drop transfers, Synchronize for incremental two-way sync, Disk mode to mount the bucket as a virtual disk in Finder.

Pre-signed URLs

Right-click any object → Copy URL → Sign URL to generate a pre-signed download link.

AppleScript

Transmit is fully scriptable via AppleScript:

tell application "Transmit"
set fav to make new favorite with properties {
name: "Filebase",
protocol: amazon s3,
server: "s3.filebase.io",
user name: "YOUR_FILEBASE_KEY",
password: "YOUR_FILEBASE_SECRET"
}
end tell

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