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| - | ====== How can I configure default local or remote directory for session? ====== | + | ====== How can I configure the default local or remote directory for the session? ====== |
| - | On Login dialog, after you configure your session (host name, user name, etc), go to //[[ui_login_directories#initial_directories|Directories tab]]//. There are two input boxes for default local and remote directories. Once you enter them go to //[[ui_login_stored_sessions|Stored sessions tab]]// to save the session settings. To open the stored session, just double-click it. | + | On Login dialog, after you configure your session (hostname, username, etc), click //Advanced// button to open Advance Site Settings dialog and go to its //[[ui_login_directories#directories|Directories page]]//. There are two input boxes for default local and remote directories. Once you enter them save the site settings to [[session_configuration#site|site]]. To open the site, just double-click it. |
| - | If you want to change default local directory for all sessions, note that the default directory is your Windows //My Documents//directory. If this is not your prefered local directory, it is probably because you do not like the default placement of the //My Documents// directory in the system. Then you should probably change the location of the //My documents// directory directly in Windows, instead of overriding it in WinSCP. It would then affect most of the other application, not only WinSCP. | + | You can also set directories on command-line. For remote directory you can use [[session_url|session URL]]. For local directory, use [[rawsettings|raw site settings]]. |
| + | If you want to change default local directory for all sessions, note that the default directory is your Windows //My Documents// directory. If this is not your preferred local directory, it is probably because you do not like the default placement of the //My Documents// directory in the system. Then you should probably change the location of the //My documents// directory directly in Windows, instead of overriding it in WinSCP. It would then affect most of the other application, not only WinSCP. | ||
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| + | If you do not want to change location of //My Documents//, you can still change local or remote directory in [[session_configuration#default|default site settings]]. | ||