Uploading Files using WinSCP

This tutorial assumes you already have WinSCP running on your computer, and are connected to a remote server.

Now let’s learn how to upload or transfer files from our computer to a remote server.

1. Select a few files you would like to upload from your Local Drive. To select multiple files press CTRL on your keyboard.

Upload Website Files - WinSCP - Select Local Drive Files

2. Click F5 Copy. Click Copy in the pop-up window.

Upload Website Files - WinSCP - Copy Files

That’s it! We’ve successfully uploaded the selected files to the remote server, and they are now also displayed here in the remote server window.

Upload Website Files - WinSCP - Files Copied to Remote Server

Let’s learn how to download files. To demonstrate this, we’ll first remove a file from our local computer.

3. Let’s remove changelog.txt by selecting it and click F8 Delete and click OK in the pop-up window.

Upload Website Files - WinSCP - Delete File from Local Drive

4. Now let’s Download the changelog.txt file from the Remote Server to our Local Drive by selecting it.

5. Click F5 Copy.

Upload Website Files - WinSCP - Copy File from Remote Server

There it is!

Upload Website Files - WinSCP - File Copied from Remote Server

This is the end of the tutorial. Now you know how to upload and transfer files to and from your local computer.

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