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Files beside your terminal

The Files panel shows a server’s files next to its terminal, over SFTP. It signs in the way the host does, so there’s nothing more to set up.

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On this page
  1. How it works
  2. Open Files
  3. Upload and download
  4. Rename, add folders, delete
  5. Good to know

How it works

Files travel between your browser and the server through GoTerm’s gateway, which passes them along as they come and keeps no copy.

HTTPSSFTPFiles panelin your browserGoTermpasses them along, keeps no copyYour hostits own files and folders
The Files panel sends and receives files over HTTPS; the gateway passes them to and from the server over SFTP without keeping them.

Open Files

  1. In a session, choose Files on the rail at the right.
  2. The panel opens in your home folder. Click a folder to open it.
  3. The up arrow goes up a folder. The … menu has Go to a folder… and Show hidden files.
GoTerm’s Files panel beside a terminal on pinecrest-web-01, listing the deploy user’s folders and files.Open the full-size picture

Upload and download

  1. Drop files onto the panel, or use its Upload files here button.
  2. To download a file, choose the download button on its row.

Tip: An upload replaces a file of the same name in that folder.

Rename, add folders, delete

  1. The New folder button makes a folder where you are.
  2. Use the rename and delete buttons on a file’s or a folder’s row.
  3. Delete works on files and on empty folders.

Good to know

  • Files has a connection of its own to the host, so it keeps working while the terminal is busy.
  • A host that asks for its password each time asks again when you open Files.
  • Files works through a jump host too.

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