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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
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Connecting to the Server
- Where do I get a username and password?
- Can I connect to an FTP server?
- WinSCP gives warning that the server's host key was not found in the cache. What does this mean?
- How do I know if the connection is secure?
- I get the message "Received too large (??? B) SFTP packet" when I login. What is the problem?
- When I click the "Login" button, the program starts connecting, but then it displays some error message and quits. What am I doing wrong?
- Where should I type the IP address of my remote host?
- How can I use WinSCP with OpenSSH for Windows?
- Why does WinSCP keep on asking me for a session password?
Transfering Files
- Can I transfer files between two remote servers with WinSCP (FXP)?
- When I drop files outside of WinSCP, they are moved to the drop target. I want to copy them. How do I do that?
- File transfer speed is very low. WinSCP does not utilize all available bandwidth. How do I improve the transfer speed?
- Downloaded files are stored first to a temporary directory and only after that, they are moved to the destination directory. How do I prevent storing files to a temporary directory?
- I need to overwrite a remote file that isn't owned by me, but I'm member of its group. The file has write permission for group. After transfer I get a message like "Upload of file <filename> was successful, but error occurred while setting the permissions and/or timestamp"
- Where can I change the file transfer mode (binary, ascii) or enable the auto-select transfer mode option?
- Why is the timestamp of uploaded/downloaded file different from the timestamp of the source file?
- When I attempt to copy files, I get an Error 127. What does this mean?
Configuring the Session
Scripting/Automation
Miscellaneous
- How do I change user after login (e.g. su root)?
- Can I change my account password with WinSCP?
- Can I have a local directory in both panels (turn WinSCP into file manager)?
- How do I change drive on the remote panel?
- How do I make WinSCP show UTF-8 encoded (Unicode) filenames correctly?
- Why can't I edit more than one file with my external editor?
- Can WinSCP show me HTTP URL address for the selected file?
- What do direction options (local, remote, both) for Synchronization mean?
- During synchronization all files are transferred. How do I make WinSCP transfer only changed files?
- Can I map an SFTP or SCP server as a network drive in Windows?
- Why can't I change the owner and the group of a file?
- What is error code 4? (or some other error code)
- How do I transfer my settings to another computer? How do I import/export my settings?
- I cannot read the file panel font. How can I make the panel font bigger?
- What command-line parameters can be used with WinSCP?
- How to keep the user in a specified directory on the server? (chrooted session)
- Why does selecting a file in WinSCP not work as I expect (that is, in the normal MS Windows way)?
- Can the internal editor be better (e.g. syntax highlighting)?
- Only scp2 is allowed on our server. Is it possible to make WinSCP use it instead of scp1?