SFTP file browser
Browse a host’s files in a tab, with keyboard navigation, a context menu and copy/cut/paste.
SFTP file browser
Browse a host's files in a tab next to its terminals, like WinSCP or FileZilla, over the same SSH credentials and jump chain the host already uses.
Open it
- On a host card's menu, choose Explore SFTP.
- In an SFTP tab, the tab menu's Duplicate (new SFTP session) opens a second browser on the same host.
The tab shows a folder icon. While it connects, you see the same step-by-step progress as a terminal.
Find your way around
- The breadcrumb above the list shows the current path. Click any part of it to jump there.
- Double-click a folder to open it. Up one folder and Refresh are in the toolbar.
- Click to select, and use ⌘ / Ctrl or Shift to select several. The checkbox column selects all.
- Symlinks are marked, and the list shows Size and Modified for each entry.
Keyboard
| Keys | Action |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ | Move (add Shift to extend the selection) |
| ⌘↑ / ⌘↓ (Ctrl on Windows, Linux) | Move without changing the selection |
| Space | Select or deselect the focused row |
| → / ← | Open the focused folder / go up one folder |
| Enter | Open a folder; open a text file in the editor (Pro); download any other file |
| Page Up / Page Down, Home / End | Jump by 10 rows / to the first or last row |
| A letter | Jump to the next name starting with it |
| F2 | Rename |
| Delete, or ⌘⌫ on macOS | Delete |
| ⌘A, ⌘C, ⌘X, ⌘V (Ctrl on Windows, Linux) | Select all, copy, cut, paste |
| Esc | Clear the selection |
Right-click menu
On a file or folder: Open (folders), Edit (text files), Download…, Rename…, Delete…, Copy, Cut, Open in Terminal and Refresh. With several items selected, the actions apply to all of them and show the count.
On empty space: New Folder…, Upload Files…, Upload Folders…, Paste, Paste to Local…, Open in Terminal, Select All and Refresh.
Copy, cut and paste
The SFTP clipboard is shared by every SFTP tab. Copy in one host's tab, switch to another host's tab and Paste, and the files are copied server to server. Cut moves them instead. Copying only remembers what you picked; nothing is read until you paste.
- Paste with nothing copied in the app pastes files you copied in Finder or Explorer, which uploads them.
- Paste to Local… downloads what's on the SFTP clipboard to a folder you choose on this computer.
Good to know
- Delete removes folders with everything inside them, and there's no undo.
- Disconnect in the toolbar closes the SFTP connection.
Related
Uploads, downloads & transfers · Remote file editor · Open in Terminal from SFTP