Properties Dialog

In the upper part of the dialog you can see information about the selected file(s). The counter will initially not include files and directories in subdirectories. Press Calculate button to count even these.

The Size field will state “Unknown”, if the selection contains at least one directory. Press Calculate button next to it to calculate the total size of all files in the selected directories (symlinks are not followed)

The Group and Owner boxes can be used to change ownership of the selected files. Initially the boxes will show current ownership as long as all selected files has the same owner/group. Otherwise the boxes will be empty. Leave them empty not to change the ownership, when you are changing other properties (like permissions).

The boxes are disabled if current protocol does not allow changing ownership. You can overcome this limitation by defining custom command:

chgrp !?New group:?! !&

(to change owner use chown instead of chgrp).

The permissions box can be used to change permissions of selected files.

You can also set permissions for newly uploaded files directly in transfer settings.

If the selection contains at least one directory, there will be additional checkbox Set group, ownership and permissions recursively. It will make WinSCP change the properties for all files in selected directories.

With SFTP protocol this can take considerable time as the change must be made for each file specially. With SCP protocol the change is made once for each selected file or directory only, so it can be much quicker. However as consequence WinSCP will not be able to keep some properties, especially permissions, of files in subdirectories unchanged, when you request it.