Navigating

You can navigate with WinSCP in several ways, both with mouse and keyboard. Choose the one you prefer.

Ms. Beards Monthly Newsletter Volume 1

Hello parents/guardians,

I just want to tell everyone to remain warm with this cold icy weather. I hope everyone is happy ending January going into the beginning of February. When the students returned from Christmas break they did a great job at getting back into the flow of being at school. Coming into February we will continue on writing names in cursive. The students have progressed tremendously and I am very proud of them. Keep up the good work!

Valentine Day! On February 14th we will be having a very exciting day in class. The students are being asked to bring valentine day cards for their fellow friends and a dish. I ask that you make sure to have enough snacks for 22 students. I ask that the parents get involved because this will be a very interesting day if everyone participates. The party will start at 1:30 until the end of the day. I ask the students to please wear red for the boys and pink for the girls because we will take photos to hang on the door.

Reminder!! Just a little reminder that we will be taking school photos on February 25th. If you want to purchase pictures for your child then the form need to be returned by February 18th.

Take Action! It is very important that you take time out to talk to your students about the activities that we do here at school and the assignments that we send home with them. Parents I encourage you to really get involved with your children on a daily basis. Thanks!

New Policy!!! The Board of Education had a meeting last month about the usage of cell phones. I know parents want to make sure their child stays in contact, but cell phones are no longer prohibited in the schools. If you want to get a hold of your child during school hours then you are more welcomed to contact the school.

Contact Me! If you would like to contact me my personal email sbeard@eiu.edu or cell phone {217} 213-9903 would be best. I check my e-mails daily at 7:30am and during our lunch hour at 1:00pm. My cell phone is always on me and I check my voicemails throughout the day. Please feel free to e-mail or call with any comments, questions, or concerns. Have a wonderful remainder of the year!

File Panel
Directory Tree
Bookmarks
Entering a Path Manually
Opening a Path Stored in Clipboard
Special Commands
Synchronized Browsing
Keyboard Shortcuts
Special Devices

File Panel

In file panel you can enter the subdirectory of current directory by double-clicking the subdirectory icon (or by pressing Enter). If a same way you can “enter” symbolic link pointing to directory. When resolving of symbolic links is disabled for the current session, WinSCP lets you to try to “enter” any file, just in case it is symbolic link.

With Commander interface you can enter the parent directory using the parent directory icon (always the first item in the file list, with caption ..).

Directory Tree

Using the directory tree you can enter any directory visible on the tree just by clicking on its icon.

Bookmarks

You can bookmark your favorite directories using the command Commands > Add to Bookmarks in Explorer interface or Local (Remote) > Add to Bookmarks in Commander interface. Or use keyboard shortcut.

When bookmarking directory, you can selected between two bookmark lists, session bookmarks and shared bookmarks. The first is specific to current session. The latter is shared among all sessions.

To retrieve and manage bookmarks, go to View > Go To > Open Directory/Bookmark in Explorer interface or Local (Remote) > Go To > Open Directory/Bookmark in Commander interface or find the respective icon on a toolbar or use keyboard shortcut.

You can select between two bookmark modes. “Bookmark” mode is available for both interfaces. It is just a list of bookmarked paths separated for remote and local panels (local bookmarks are available for the Commander interface only). The “Location Profiles” mode is available for Commander interface only. It is a list of named profiles consisting of both local and remote directories. The profiles can be hierarchically organised into folders.

Entering a Path Manually

Using the Open directory dialog, you can open the desired directory by entering its path. Go to View > Go To > Open Directory/Bookmark in the Explorer interface, or Local (Remote) > Go To > Open Directory/Bookmark in the Commander interface, or find the respective icon on a toolbar, or use a keyboard shortcut.

In Explorer interface, you can also enter the path directly to the address bar.

Opening a Path Stored in Clipboard

If your clipboard has a plain text string only, behaviour of the function File(s) > Paste is changed so it attempts to open the path stored in clipboard instead of pasting files.

Learn how to copy a path to current working directory to the clipboard.

Special Commands

In the main menu (View > Go To in Explorer interface or Local (Remote) > Go To in Commander interface) and on the toolbars you can find a set of special commands that can help you with navigation:

Parent directory - To go one level up in the directory structure
Root directory - To go to the top level directory.
Home directory - To open the home directory. For the remote panel the home directory is by default your user directory on the server, and for local panel it is your documents directory. You can override this by setting initial session directories and using preference option Default directory is home directory.
Back/Forward - To navigate back/forward in directory history (the same as in Windows Explorer and similar to Back/Forward buttons in a web browser).

Synchronized Browsing

When you change your directory in one file panel and this feature is turned on, WinSCP automatically opens the same directory in an opposite panel. For example, if you change the directory in remote panel from /home/mprikryl/public_html to /home/mprikryl/public_html/wiki and the directory D:\documents\www is opened in the local panel, WinSCP will automatically open the local directory D:\documents\www\wiki for you. If a corresponding directory in the opposite panel does not exist, you will be given an option to create it.

This function is available in the Commander interface only. To turn it on go to Commands > Synchronize Browsing.

You can find this useful together with the function Compare directories for manual synchronization.