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Managing files

Upload, create, rename, copy, move, delete and download files and folders in Files.

Everything you do in Files happens in the folder you have open. Select entries with a click (or their tick boxes) to act on several at once, or right-click an entry for its menu. The mouse, keyboard and drag-and-drop ways are listed in Files.

Where: Files

Managing files screen

Upload files

  1. Open the folder to upload into.
  2. Click Upload and choose one or more files, or drag files or folders from your computer onto the folder view (Drop to upload to … appears), or onto a folder in the list to upload into that folder.
  3. Watch the progress in the corner. Click Cancel to stop an upload.

When it finishes you see n file(s) uploaded. A file with the same name is replaced.

Limit Value
One upload (all files together) 1 GB
Your account's disk space uploads stop when the account is full

A dropped folder is uploaded with everything in it, keeping its own folders.

Tip: for a very big folder, zip it on your computer, upload the .zip and use Extract here. For very big files, use SFTP.

Create a folder or file

  1. Click New folder (or New file).
  2. Type the Folder name (or File name) and click Create.

A new file is empty; double-click it to open it in the editor.

Actions on one entry

Right-click the entry, or click the More button (⋯) at the end of its row:

Action What it does
Open / Edit opens a folder, or a text file in the editor
Preview shows a picture, with its size and date
Download saves the file to your computer
Cut / Copy keeps the entry to paste into another folder (see below)
Paste (folders) puts what you cut or copied into this folder
Rename type the New name and click Rename
Make a copy type the name for the copy in Make a copy named and click Copy
Move moves it to another folder (see below)
Zip packs it into a .zip archive
Extract here (.zip files) unpacks the archive into this folder
Share link makes a public download link (see Share links)
Permissions changes who can read, write and run it (see Archives and permissions)
Delete deletes it

Files also have a download button in their row.

Act on several entries

  1. Select the entries: click one, then Ctrl + click (⌘ + click on a Mac) or Shift + click more; or tick them, or the box in the heading row to select every entry shown.
  2. Use the buttons that appear above the list:
Button What it does
Download (one file selected) downloads it
Zip packs the selected entries into one archive
Move moves them to another folder
Delete deletes them
Clear selection unticks everything

Right-click one of the selected entries for Cut, Copy, Move, Zip and Delete. Keyboard: Delete deletes the selected entries (after you confirm), Esc clears the selection.

Move entries

  1. Choose Move.
  2. In Move to folder, type a folder in your home, for example /web/example.com/public_html.
  3. Click Move.

You see n item(s) moved to ….

Or drag the entries onto a folder in the list, onto Up one level or onto a part of the path at the top. Hold Ctrl or Alt while dropping to copy them instead.

Cut, copy and paste

  1. Select the entries and press Ctrl + X to move them or Ctrl + C to copy them (or choose Cut or Copy in their menu). Cut entries are shown faded.
  2. Open the folder to put them in and press Ctrl + V, or right-click an empty part of the list and choose Paste. To paste into a folder of the list, choose Paste in that folder's menu.

You see n item(s) moved to … or n item(s) copied to …. Copies pasted into their own folder are named copy-of-…. Nothing is copied over an entry of the same name.

Delete entries

Choose Delete and confirm. Folders are deleted with everything in them.

Warning: deleting in Files is permanent. There is no trash or undo. Make a copy or a backup first if you may need the file again.

Download

  • One file: the download button on its row, or Download in its menu.
  • A folder or several files: Zip them, then download the .zip. Or make a share link to the folder; it downloads as a zip file.