saferowSwitching · Sequel Ace
Switching from Sequel Ace.
Your favourites, their SSH settings and key files, and the passwords Sequel Ace saved come over. Sequel Ace keeps working as it is; saferow only reads its list.
Three steps
- Install saferow from the download page. The free tier needs no account and no license.
- Choose File › Import from Sequel Ace, TablePlus or TablePro… Your Sequel Ace connections are listed first. Press Set up on one.
- Connect once. saferow checks every step, from SSH to Safe reads, and saves the connection only when it works. If a step fails, it says which and how to fix it.
What comes over
- Every favourite, as a MySQL connection: host, port, user and database, with Sequel Ace’s 64-bit ids kept exactly, so nothing is mixed up.
- SSH settings: host, user and port, and the key file when the favourite names one.
- Saved passwords, one connection at a time: press Bring from Sequel Ace, macOS asks for your login password, and the password goes straight into saferow’s own Keychain item. You never see it.
- Your
~/.ssh/confighosts, folded into servers, with the favourites attached to the server they use.
What doesn’t
- SSH passwords and key passphrases: type them once, under SSH; they go to your Keychain.
- SSL settings, and socket paths: a socket favourite becomes 127.0.0.1:3306.
- Saved queries, colours, groups and tags.
- Environment labels: saferow guesses which connections are production and asks you.
- Databases other than MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres and SQLite.
What’s different day to day
- Postgres and SQLite connections sit beside your MySQL ones.
- Reads the agent makes are safe reads; every write it proposes waits for you, with Touch ID on production.
- Your own grid edits are staged and saved with ⌘S through the same kernel, and every write can be rewound.
Nothing in Sequel Ace is changed: saferow reads its list and leaves it as it was. saferow and Sequel Ace, compared.