SFTPComing

Browse a server's files beside your Mac's, and copy files and folders between them.

Connect

Open SFTP (⌘2) and choose a host; double-click to connect. It connects the way a session does, with the same host key check, jump hosts and proxy. Your Mac’s files are on the left and the server’s on the right. Choose Another Host switches server, and Disconnect closes the connection.

Type a path in the path bar to go straight to a folder (~ is your home folder on the server), and turn on Hidden files to see files whose names start with a dot.

Copy files and folders

• Drag files or folders from one side to the other, or from Finder onto the server’s side. Drag from your Mac’s side out to Finder too.
• Or right-click: Upload on your Mac’s side, Download on the server’s.
• Select several items with ⌘-click and ⇧-click.

If something with the same name is already there, the app asks once for the whole set: files are replaced and folders are merged. File permissions are kept, so a script stays executable. Symbolic links inside a folder are skipped rather than followed.

Transfers shows the progress of each copy; Clear Finished tidies the list.

Manage files

Right-click either side for New Folder… and Rename. On your Mac, Move to Trash (or Delete) moves items to the Trash, and Show in Finder reveals them. On the server, Delete asks first, because it can’t be undone, and deletes folders with everything in them.