Chiral-FTP 1.1

chiral-ftp 1.1

chiral-ftp now has downloads for Windows, Mac and Linux, next to
the PS5 and the Nintendo Switch. And every copy of chiral-ftp on
your network can now find and open the others in two presses: Quick
connect.

New: Quick connect

• Every copy of chiral-ftp on your network shows up, whatever it is
  doing: no server has to be running, and nothing has to be set up.
• Ask one to share. It shows your request with a 4-digit code; check
  it's the same code on both screens and press Allow. The other device
  starts its server, and you are connected and browsing it.
• The login it hands out works only from the device that asked, and only
  while that server runs. Deny, or let the request time out, and nothing is
  shared.
• On a console, Quick connect is on the start screen (press Up) and runs
  while chiral-ftp is open there. On a computer it's in the sidebar (or
  ⌘K on a Mac) and runs whenever the app is open.
• The list stays current even on Wi-Fi that drops broadcasts.

New: Windows, Mac and Linux

• Windows: one .exe (x64; it runs on Windows on ARM too), nothing to
  install. Mac: chiral-ftp.app. Double-click it, or drag it to
  Applications; it carries its own libraries. Linux: one .AppImage
  file.
• Made for a computer (Windows, Mac and Linux alike): a sidebar with
  the server, the web app, Quick connect, the message log and Settings, each
  a page with ordinary switches, fields and buttons; on a Mac the menu bar
  has everything, with shortcuts.
• The mouse works everywhere: hover, click, right-click, scroll, and
  click outside a panel to close it.
• Sharp text: the layout follows the window instead of scaling a fixed
  screen, and text is rendered with hinting.
• SFTP server (encrypted, the default) or FTP, on the same screen.
• Shares your home folder by default. Whole computer shares
  everything, after a confirmation. chiral-ftp's own settings (saved
  passwords, the server's login and its private key) are never shared,
  whatever folder is.
• The web app opens in your browser. By default only this computer can
  reach it; switch "Reachable from" to your home network to use it from a
  phone or another device.
• Network: when a computer is on several networks (Wi-Fi, Ethernet, a
  VPN), Settings > Network chooses the address to show. Automatic prefers
  your home network.
• On a computer, the file manager and the FTP / SFTP client are in the web
  app, in your browser.

New on the Switch: USB drives

• USB drives show up in the drive list as soon as they're plugged in:
  FAT32, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/3/4. Browse, copy and move between them and
  the SD card in the file manager, and reach them over the FTP server
  (/usb0) and the web app.
• Free space is shown again for the SD card and for USB drives.

New on the PS5

• Free space is shown for the internal storage, an M.2 drive and USB
  drives.
• The start screen says how the app got full storage access (the
  jailbreak's resident service, or the Lapy helper), or why it didn't.

Everywhere

• Change permissions recursively: a folder and everything inside it,
  as its own entry next to Change permissions (client, file manager and web
  app). Folders keep x wherever they get r, so they stay openable.
• Uploads to a PS5 homebrew folder end up 777 (files and folders, any
  path with /data/homebrew in it, whichever FTP server the PS5 runs), so
  homebrew copied from another device starts.
• Rename, permissions and Delete for folders in the client's menu on
  consoles (OPTIONS on the PS5, Plus on the Switch), for the item under the
  cursor or everything marked.
• A server that stops answering is let go after 30 seconds: the client
  says the connection was lost and closes, instead of still saying
  "Connected to…".

Fixes

• Switch: closing chiral-ftp during a transfer no longer crashes it:
  transfers are stopped and waited for before the app exits.
• Switch: tapping a card no longer opens Quick connect when the
  controller's focus was on the Quick connect button.
• Client: pressing Open again while a folder is loading no longer sends
  the same request again behind the first.
• Client: the loading spinner no longer covers Disconnect.
• Long drive names no longer run into the path next to them.
• Computers: folders made by the server, the web app or the file manager
  can be opened (they were created without the x bit).
• PS5: the start screen showed the Switch's wording for full access.

Install

PS5

1. Download chiral-ftp-ps5-1.1.zip below and unpack it: it contains
   the folder PPSA96024.
2. Copy that folder to /data/homebrew/PPSA96024 on the PS5.
3. Make sure the folder and every file in it are 777 (the zip stores them
   that way, but some FTP clients don't keep it), then start Chiral-FTP from
   the dashboard.

Updating: close chiral-ftp first, then replace the folder. Your settings and
saved sites stay in /data/chiral-ftp.

Nintendo Switch

1. Download chiral-ftp.nro below.
2. Copy it into /switch on your SD card.
3. Start it from hbmenu. For the whole console's memory, hold R while
   launching a game and pick chiral-ftp from the menu that opens; starting it
   from the album works too, with less memory.

Updating: replace the .nro. Your settings and saved sites stay in
/switch/chiral-ftp.

Mac (macOS 27 or later, Apple silicon)

1. Download chiral-ftp.app below.
2. Drag it to Applications.
3. The app isn't notarized by Apple, so the first time macOS says it can't
   check it: open System Settings > Privacy & Security and choose
   Open Anyway (or run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/chiral-ftp.app once).

Updating: replace the app. Your settings stay in
~/Library/Application Support/chiral-ftp.

Linux (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or newer, and others like them)

1. Download chiral-ftp-1.1-aarch64.AppImage (ARM computers, such as a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 on 64-bit) or chiral-ftp-1.1-x86_64.AppImage (most PCs) below.
2. Make it executable (chmod +x chiral-ftp-*.AppImage, or Properties >
   Allow executing as a program) and run it.

Updating: replace the file. Your settings stay in ~/.local/share/chiral-ftp.

Windows (Windows 10 or 11)

1. Download chiral-ftp-1.1-windows-x64.exe below (it runs on Windows on ARM PCs too, through Windows' own x64 emulation).
2. Run it; nothing needs installing. The program isn't signed, so the first
   time Windows SmartScreen says it doesn't recognise it: choose
   More info > Run anyway. When Windows Firewall asks, allow private
   networks, so that a console or phone can reach the server.

Updating: replace the .exe. Your settings stay in %APPDATA%\chiral-ftp.
To keep everything on a USB stick instead, settings included, make a folder
named data next to the .exe: chiral-ftp then keeps its settings there.

Checksums

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cc7c3a4b09be2bbc9015868a689bce74e7c9e941028bf752a5cb2af15f74a0a8  chiral-ftp.app/Contents/MacOS/chiral-ftp

Made by Herbrax (Simo Hakim). Bugs and pull requests are welcome:
https://github.com/Herbrax/chiral-ftp/issues

chiral-ftp.app.zip is the MAC OS version
chiral-ftp.nro is the Switch (1) version
chiral-ftp-ps5-1.1.zip is the PS5 version
chiral-ftp-1.1-x86_64.AppImage is the Linux x86 version
chiral-ftp-1.1-aarch64.AppImage is the Linux ARM version
chiral-ftp-1.1-windows-x64.exe is the Windows version

Chiral-FTP 1.0.1

chiral-ftp 1.0.1

chiral-ftp is now cross-platform. The same app runs on the PS5, the
Nintendo Switch (new) and on PC and Mac, from one codebase. Support
for Android, PS4 and other platforms is coming soon.

New: Nintendo Switch

The first release for the Switch, as homebrew (.nro) started from hbmenu.
Everything the PS5 version does is there:

• FTP server, web app, file manager (the SD card) and
  FTP / SFTP client with saved sites, history, resume and up to 30
  transfers at once.
• Controls follow the PS5 layout by position: A opens, B goes back,
  Y marks, X transfers, R switches sides, Plus opens the
  menu and Minus shows the transfer queue. The bottom bar shows the
  Switch's own buttons.
• The touch screen works: tap a row, a card, a menu item or a setting,
  drag a list to scroll, tap outside a menu to close it.
• Text is typed with the system keyboard.
• Sleep is held off and the HOME menu can't close the app while it runs,
  so a transfer isn't cut short.
• The start screen says whether the app got the console's full memory
  (launched over a game, holding R) or the album's smaller share.
• English, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian.
• Settings, saved sites and history are kept in /switch/chiral-ftp.

New: PC and Mac

The same app in a window on Windows, macOS or Linux, with the keyboard or
a game controller. There's no download yet: build it from source with
make PLATFORM=sdl (see the README).

PS5

• Creating, renaming, moving, deleting and uploading files no longer fail
  on folders the app isn't allowed to change (755 or 766 ones, for
  example): chiral-ftp sets the folder to 777 and tries again. This works in
  the file manager, the web app, the FTP server and the client.
• Change permissions works again.
• New folder and rename work in the two-pane file manager: the PS5
  keyboard is loaded before the app asks for full storage access. If the
  keyboard still can't open, the app says so instead of doing nothing.
• Hold Circle to go back to the start screen from anywhere.
• Faster drawing: menus and lists respond more quickly to the
  controller.
• The FTP server notices when its connection died while the console slept,
  instead of claiming to still be running.
• In the client, Disconnect is on the server pane while connected.

Everywhere

• The About screen says which platforms chiral-ftp runs on, and thanks the
  projects each version is built with.
• The FTP server's default login is now chiral / ftp on every
  platform. A login you already set is kept; "Reset to chiral / ftp" on the
  FTP server screen switches to the new one.

Downloads

• chiral-ftp-ps5-1.0.1.zip: the PS5 title (PPSA96024). Close chiral-ftp
  before you replace it; your settings in /data/chiral-ftp are kept.
• chiral-ftp.nro: the Switch homebrew. Copy it into /switch on the SD
  card; to update, replace it.

Install

PS5

1. Download chiral-ftp-ps5-1.0.1.zip below and unpack it: it contains
   the folder PPSA96024.
2. Copy that folder to /data/homebrew/PPSA96024 on the PS5.
3. Make sure the folder and every file in it are 777 (the zip stores them
   that way, but some FTP clients don't keep it), then start Chiral-FTP from
   the dashboard.

Updating: close chiral-ftp first, then replace the folder. Your settings and
saved sites stay in /data/chiral-ftp.

Nintendo Switch

1. Download chiral-ftp.nro below.
2. Copy it into /switch on your SD card.
3. Start it from hbmenu. For the whole console's memory, hold R while
   launching a game and pick chiral-ftp from the menu that opens; starting it
   from the album works too, with less memory.

Updating: replace the .nro. Your settings and saved sites stay in
/switch/chiral-ftp.

Checksums

d48085f1ea271b21c9c809b06eedb67ab782d6b493fa106b8e698165d34d33d1  chiral-ftp-ps5-1.0.1.zip
448e7b6ba26c39059f20acc95a6060d02d1aea4f763039c50b885a7cad017723  chiral-ftp.nro

Made by Herbrax (Simo Hakim). Bugs and pull requests are welcome:
https://github.com/Herbrax/chiral-ftp/issues

Chiral-FTP 1.0

chiral-ftp 1.0

The first release of chiral-ftp: the ultimate file manager and FTP interface
for PS5. It runs as a native homebrew title from the dashboard (via
ShadowMountPlus) and is used with the controller on the TV.

What's in it

• FTP server. Other devices connect to the PS5 with FileZilla, a file
  manager or any FTP app. The screen shows the address and login; change the
  username, password or port, or allow anonymous logins. Live activity:
  connected clients, transfers and speed.
• Web app. Open the address it shows in a browser on your PC or phone:
  browse the PS5's files, download them, upload from the browser (drag and
  drop works), copy, move, rename and delete. The FTP client is there too.
• File manager. Two panes for copying and moving files on the PS5:
  internal storage, Homebrew, USB drives and extended storage. Copies run in
  the background with progress; a folder is deleted with everything inside.
• FTP / SFTP client. Connect to a laptop, PC or NAS and transfer both
  ways: saved sites and recent connections, resume, and up to 30 transfers
  at once (5 by default).
• Full storage access. At start, chiral-ftp asks the jailbreak for access
  to the console's real storage (OnionHEN, a resident Lapy, or the packaged
  Lapy helper sent to elfldr on port 9021), the way ProsperoEden does.
• Every file chiral-ftp writes to the PS5 is 777, so homebrew you copy
  starts. Files it uploads to a server are set to 777 there too when the
  server allows it.
• Nine languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
  Chinese, Russian and Arabic, with a language selector in Settings
  ("Automatic" follows the PS5's system language). Japanese, Korean, Chinese
  and Arabic use the PS5's own system fonts.
• Servers and transfers keep running while you use another mode or go to the
  PS5 home screen.

Requirements

• A jailbroken PS5 with ShadowMountPlus, and an ELF loader (elfldr) on port
  9021 when chiral-ftp starts.
• Tested on PS5 firmware 13.60.

Known limitations

• Closing chiral-ftp stops its servers and transfers.
• There is no SFTP server yet (the FTP server is plain FTP).
• The web app has no login: anyone on your network can use it while it runs.
• The technical message log and the web pages are in English.
• Arabic text reads right to left, but the screen layout stays left to right,
  and Arabic file names aren't joined.
• Free space on drives isn't shown.

Install

1. Download chiral-ftp-1.0.zip below and unpack it: it contains the folder PPSA96024.
2. Copy that folder to /data/homebrew/PPSA96024 on the PS5.
3. Make sure the folder and every file in it are 777 (the zip stores them that
   way, but some FTP clients don't keep it), then start Chiral-FTP from the
   dashboard.

Updating: close chiral-ftp first, then replace the folder. Your settings and
saved sites stay in /data/chiral-ftp.

Checksum

1759b57b363307acbf1f6bf5924f91910a131cbf6a0cee4ac30978256578aadf  chiral-ftp-1.0.zip

Made by Herbrax (Simo Hakim). Bugs and pull requests are welcome:
https://github.com/Herbrax/Chiral-FTP-PS5/issues