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Usage Statistics

WinSCP can send to WinSCP team non-personal statistics about usage of WinSCP features. The only potentially personal information sent is IP addresses. You can disable this functionality in the installer or anytime later in preferences.

WinSCP usage statistics help us improve future versions of WinSCP. Once sent to us, usage statistics are stored for analysis (except IP addresses) and made available to the core WinSCP team only.

Why is it very important?
What usage information is collected and sent to us?
Further reading

Why is it very important?

We work very hard to make WinSCP reliable and useful. We also love improving WinSCP with every release. And last but not least, we provide WinSCP application to You for free and we want this to stay so!

However our resources and time are unfortunately very limited. We want to focus our effort on improving the right features for You. That is why we need to learn more about how You use WinSCP. Understanding user experience is very important for us, it means, Your experience using WinSCP is important too!

Please allow to send us your usage statistics data!

What usage information is collected and sent to us?

WinSCP collects and sends following static information about your system, counters and metrics.

You can review the information collected and ready for sending on Updates tab of Preferences dialog.

Collected information is stored in Configuration/Usage section in the configuration storage.

Static information about your system and WinSCP installation

Name	Description
`WindowsVersion`	Version of Windows operating system.
`WindowsProductName`	Windows product name (e.g. “Windows 7 Home Premium”).
`DefaultLocale`	Default locale of your Windows installation (Locale IDs Assigned by Microsoft).
`Installed`	Time your version of WinSCP was installed (run for the first time).
`InProgramFiles`	Is WinSCP installed in default Program Files folder?
`Locale`	Locale (translation) of WinSCP.
`FirstUse`	Time of first WinSCP use (of any version).
`FirstVersion`	First version of WinSCP used.
`CurrentVersion`	Current version of WinSCP.
`AnyBetaUsed`	Ever used a beta version of WinSCP?
`LastReport`	Time since the last reset of period counters.

Information about your WinSCP configuration

Name	Description
`StoredSessionsCountSCP`	Number of sites using SCP protocol.
`StoredSessionsCountSFTP`	Number of sites using SFTP protocol.
`StoredSessionsCountFTP`	Number of sites using FTP protocol.
`StoredSessionsCountFTPS`	Number of sites using FTPS protocol.
`StoredSessionsCountPassword`	Number of sites with stored password.
`StoredSessionsCountColor`	Number of sites with associated color.
`StoredSessionsCountAdvanced`	Number of sites with any advanced option set (all except those available on Session tab of Login dialog and initial Local and Remote directories).
`UsingDefaultStoredSession`	Default session settings set?
`UsingStoredSessionsFolders`	Any site folder used?
`Interface`	Interface used (0 = Commander, 1 = Explorer).
`CopyParamsCount`	Number of user defined transfer settings presets.
`CustomCommandsCount`	Number of user defined custom commands.
`UsingLocationProfiles`	Using location profiles bookmark mode?
`UsingMasterPassword`	Using master password?
`ExternalEditors`	List of configured external editors (e.g. “notepad,editplus”).

Counters of your use of WinSCP

Each of the following counters has two instances:

Lifetime, counting since the collection of usage statistics was enabled, with Lifetime prefix;
Period, counting since the last time usage statistics were sent to us (see also UpdateLastReport), with Period prefix.

Name1	Description
`Runs`	Number of WinSCP runs.
`Upgrades`	Number of WinSCP upgrades (runs, where previously run WinSCP version was older).
`Downgrades`	Number of WinSCP downgrades (runs, where previously run WinSCP version was higher).
`UploadsCommand`	Number of uploads using menu or keyboard.
`DownloadsCommand`	Number of downloads using menu or keyboard.
`UploadsDragDropInternal`	Number of uploads using drag&drop within application.
`UploadsDragDropExternal`	Number of uploads using drag&drop from another application.
`TransfersOnBackground`	Number of transfers on background (in transfer queue).
`FileMaskUses`	Number of transfers and synchronizations that made use of file mask.
`OperationMaskUses`	Number of transfers and synchronizations that made use of operation mask.
`UploadedFiles`	Number of uploaded files (excluding background transfers).
`DownloadedFiles`	Number of downloaded files (excluding background transfers).
`DownloadsDragDropInternal`	Number of downloads using drag&drop within application.
`DownloadsDragDropExternalExt`	Number of downloads using drag&drop to Windows Explorer using Drag&drop shell extension.
`DownloadsDragDropExternalTemp`	Number of downloads using drag&drop to another application using temporary folder.
`OpenedSessionsSCP`	Number of connection attempts using SCP protocol.
`OpenedSessionsSFTP`	Number of connection attempts using SFTP protocol.
`OpenedSessionsFTP`	Number of connection attempts using FTP protocol.
`OpenedSessionsFTPS`	Number of connection attempts using FTPS protocol.
`OpenedSessionsPrivateKey2`	Number of connection attempts using private key.
`OpenedSessionsAdvanced`	Number of connection attempts with any advanced option set (all except those available on Session tab of Login dialog and initial Local and Remote directories).
`OpenedSessionsLogToFile`	Number of connection attempts with session logging to file enabled.
`OpenedSessionsXmlLog`	Number of connection attempts with XML logging enabled.
`MaxOpenedSessions`	Maximal number of opened sessions at the same time.
`RemoteFilesExecuted`	Number of remote files opened in an associated application.
`RemoteFilesOpenedInInternalEditor`	Number of remote files opened in an internal editor.
`RemoteFilesOpenedInExternalEditor`	Number of remote files opened in an external editor.
`LocalFilesExecuted`	Number of local files opened in an associated application.
`LocalFilesOpenedInInternalEditor`	Number of local files opened in an internal editor.
`LocalFilesOpenedInExternalEditor`	Number of local files opened in an external editor.
`RemoteFilesSaved`	Number of remote files edited/opened and saved.
`RemoteFileSaves`	Number of remote file saves.
`Synchronizations`	Number of Synchronization runs.
`KeepUpToDates`	Number of Keep remote directory up to date runs.
`RemoteCommandExecutions`	Number of executions of remote command.
`LocalCustomCommandRuns`	Number of runs of local custom commands.
`RemoteCustomCommandRuns`	Number of runs of remote custom commands.
`CopyParamAutoSelects`	Number of automatic selections of transfer setting preset.
`SpaceAvailableChecks`	Number of checks for space available on remote server.
`SynchronizeBrowsingEnabled`	Number of starts of synchronized browsing.
`FileFinds`	Number of Find file runs.
`OpenInPutty`	Number of Open in PuTTY uses.
`ChecksumCalculated`	Number of Checksum calculation runs.
`RemoteLinksCreated`	Number of remote links created.
`KeyboardSelections`	Number of files selected using keyboard.
`MouseSelections`	Number of files selected using mouse.
`InterfaceChanges`	Number of interface changes.
`ConsoleExternal`	Number of scripting/console runs using `winscp.com`.
`ConsoleOwn`	Number of scripting/console runs using `winscp.exe` (`/console`).
`ConsoleNull`	Number of hidden scripting/console runs.
`ConsoleDotNet`	Number of .NET session runs.
`ScriptFile`	Number of scripting runs using script file (`/script`).
`ScriptCommands`	Number of scripting runs with commands passed on command-line (`/command`).
`ScriptParameters`	Number of scripting runs with parameters passed on command-line (`/parameters`).
`ScriptLog`	Number of scripting/console runs with session logging enabled on command-line (`/log`).
`ScriptXmlLog`	Number of scripting/console runs with XML logging enabled on command-line (`/xmllog`).
`CommandLineOperation`	Number of command-line operation runs.
`CommandLineSession`	Number of non-script sessions opened from command-line.
`AccessViolations`	Fatal errors.
`ExternalExceptions`	Fatal errors.
`HeapExceptions`	Fatal errors.
`MaxQueueLength`	Maximal number of transfers in transfer queue.
`MaxBookmarks`	Maximal number of bookmarks in any bookmark set.
`GlobalFailures`	Number of global errors.