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Every saved SSH host comes with a built-in SFTP file browser. You can browse the remote filesystem, upload files by drag-and-drop, download files back to your machine, and open remote files in the editor of your choice — all without leaving Rumus.

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Open the file browser

The file browser lives in the left sidebar. With a remote tab focused, the file tree shows the remote host’s filesystem; with a local tab focused, it shows your local filesystem. You can also open it explicitly from the sidebar’s Files entry.
  • Click a folder to expand it; click again to collapse.
  • Click a file to select it; double-click to open it (more on opening below).
  • The breadcrumb at the top of the tree shows your current path; click any segment to jump up.

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Hidden files

Files starting with . are hidden by default. Toggle Show hidden files in the tree’s options menu to reveal them.

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Upload

The simplest way: drag files from your operating system’s file browser into the Rumus tree (or onto the Upload dialog when prompted). The drop zone says “Drop files here”.
  • Files upload into the folder you dropped them on (or the current folder if you drop on empty space).
  • Each file uploads independently — there’s no single multi-file progress bar today.
  • The dialog shows per-file status as uploads complete.
You can also use the right-click context menu’s Upload File entry, which opens a native file picker.
Upload is one-way (local → remote) via drag-and-drop today. To pull files the other direction, use Download from the file’s right-click menu.

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Download

From a file’s right-click menu, choose Download. Rumus prompts for a save location on your local machine. For folders, recursive download isn’t built-in today — for whole-tree pulls, tar it on the remote and download a single archive, or use rsync from a local terminal.

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Edit a remote file

Right-click → Edit. Rumus opens the file in your configured external editor (set this in Settings → Files), uploads any saves back to the remote automatically, and watches the file for as long as you have it open. This means you can edit a remote config file in VS Code (or whatever editor you use) without manually scp-ing it back and forth.

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Other actions

The right-click menu on a file or folder also includes:
  • Rename — opens a small dialog; type the new name and confirm.
  • Delete — asks for confirmation, then removes the file or folder.
  • Create folder — make a new directory under the selection.
  • Copy path — put the absolute remote path on your clipboard.

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What happens to file permissions

Uploaded files inherit the default permissions on the remote (your remote umask). Downloaded files inherit your local defaults. SFTP doesn’t try to preserve modes across the two sides — if you need exact mode preservation, use scp -p or rsync -a from a terminal.

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Known limitations

Worth being explicit about what isn’t there yet:
  • Bulk multi-file transfers with one progress bar (uploads are per-file today).
  • Recursive folder download — single files only.
  • Remote → local drag-and-drop — use the right-click Download action instead.
  • Conflict resolution dialogs for overwrites — re-uploading a file replaces the remote copy without a confirmation prompt today.
  • Bandwidth throttling — transfers run as fast as the connection allows.
File-browser question we didn’t cover? Ask in the Rumus community.

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Next steps

SSH host management

Save the hosts whose files you’ll browse.

Resource monitoring

Watch CPU, memory, and disk while you transfer.