Sites/Stored Sessions Tab (Login Dialog)

The list box shows list of saved sites (stored sessions) and workspaces. You should select there a site, site folder, or workspace to work with before pressing one of the Login, Edit (sites only), Delete, Rename and Shell icon buttons.

Double clicking a site or workspace has same effect as selecting it and pressing Login button.

To open all sites in site folder, select the folder and press Login button.

If you have many sites, you can quickly jump to a site by typing any part of its name. Then you can use Tab (or Shift-Tab) to search next (previous) matching sites. Press Esc to cancel searching.

The sites (stored sessions) can be organized into folders. Expand/collapse folder by double-clicking on its name.

Use the New folder button to create new site folder. To create subfolder, use path syntax “folder/subfolder” (Select the parent folder before pressing button to have the path prefilled). Note that empty folders are not preserved.

The New button resets session options on the Login dialog to the default ones and switches to Session tab.

After you set your session options, you can store them as new site.

The Edit button loads options for selected site (stored session) to Login dialog and switches to Session tab to allow modifications. To edit existing site, first load it, modify your options and than save it back (under the same or different name).

The Delete button deletes selected site (stored session) or site folder. Deleting a site folder deletes all the sites it contains.

Use the Rename button to rename selected site (stored session) or site folder.

Use Shell icon to create Desktop and 'Send To’ shortcut icons for selected site (stored session). Note that if you delete the site the existing icons will not work anymore.

If the site (stored session) has associated color, the color is used to render the site item in the list.

Tools button displays menu with various utilities:

• Import Sites (to import sites from PuTTY or FileZilla)
• Import/Restore Configuration
• Export/Backup Configuration
• Run Pageant
• Run PuTTYgen
• Clean Up (to clean up data stored on your computer by WinSCP)
• Check for Updates (to query WinSCP homepage for updates)

The Tools button is available only, when Login dialog is opened on WinSCP start.

Read more about the WinSCP Login dialog:

• Session (basic session options)
  • Sites/Stored sessions (to manage sites/stored sessions)
  • Logging (to enable logging)
• Environment (server compatibility options, filename encoding, DST, etc)
  • Directories (initial directories, directory cache)
  • Recycle Bin
  • SFTP (SFTP protocol specific/compatibility options)
  • SCP/Shell (shell and SCP protocol specific/compatibility options)
  • FTP (FTP protocol specific options)
• Connection (timeouts, keepalives)
  • Proxy (connection thru proxy server)
  • Tunnel (connection thru SSH tunnel)
• SSH (SSH protocol options and authentication)
  • Key exchange (key exchange and reexchange options)
  • Authentication (advanced authentication options)
  • Bugs (detections of known bugs in SSH servers)
• Preferences (interface/behaviour configuration)