Notifications

macSCP can tell you through macOS notifications when something goes wrong in a window you are not looking at.

What notifies

Notification	When
Connection lost	macSCP gives up on a tab’s connection and shows the lost-connection view. A failed reconnect from that view does not notify again.
Transfer failed	A transfer in a tab’s queue fails. A transfer you cancelled does not count, and neither do the transfers macSCP itself stops when it gives up on a connection — whether they were waiting or already running. A transfer that was already running when the connection went away can still count as a failure of its own, so one lost connection may show you both this and Connection lost. At most one per tab until you bring that tab’s window to the front.
Port forwarding failed	A forwarding fails. A forwarding that is already failed does not notify again until it has been restarted or reconnected.

The notification carries the session’s or the forwarding’s name — Unsaved connection for a connection that was never saved — and nothing else: no host, no path, no error text.

When you see them

• While macSCP is in the background, every notification is shown.
• While macSCP is in front, a tab’s notification is shown only when its window is not the front window. A forwarding’s failure is not shown at all while macSCP is in front — the sidebar and the Dock already show it.
• A failure that happened while notifications were held back is not shown later.

macOS asks for permission the first time macSCP has something to show, not at launch. Anything else that goes wrong while that request is still on screen waits for your answer instead of being lost. Clicking a notification does not open the tab or forwarding it is about.

Turning them off

Notifications are on by default. Turn them off under Settings → General → Notifications, or manage them for macSCP in the macOS System Settings → Notifications.