There are a few options for you to do that when using our proprietary web hosting control panel. You can either use our File Manager, or you can use a specialized software, called FTP client to achieve the results you are looking for.

Using the file manager

With our proprietary file manager, you can do all of the file operations that you might need to, including but not limited to:

• Uploading Data
• Downloading Data
• Renaming Files and Folders
• Moving Files and Folders
• Creating files and Directories
• Extracting Archives

Related: How to Use the File Manager

Please note that you cannot upload files larger than 15MB or directories via the File Manager. If you would like to do that please consider using an FTP client.

Using an FTP Client

There are a number of free FTP Clients that we might consider as a good choice to start managing your website files with.

Related: Where can I find my FTP information?

FileZilla

A fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP Client with an intuitive graphical user interface and lots of useful features can be found in FileZilla

• Synchronized directory browsing
• Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
• Available in many languages
• Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more

Download FileZilla Client: The FileZilla installation package can be found on their website.

CoffeeCup Free FTP

If you want simple and reliable file transfers, CoffeeCup Free FTP will give you all the FTP features you would expect.

• Simple use of bookmarks for paths on your local Computer or the remote Server
• Drag and Drop support: Drag a file from the remote directory somewhere out of the file explorer and it’ll be moved there
• One click backup will create a zip file directly from the remote server on your local computer

Download CoffeeCup Client: The CoffeeCup Free FTP installation package can be found on their website.

Cyberduck

Connect to WebDAV, FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, or Google Drive  with the easy-to-use interface from Cyberduck

• Available for MacOSX and Windows
• International: Cyberduck will always speak your language
• A seamless integration with any external editor application makes it quick and easy to change the content of your files. Any binary or text file on the server can be edited in your preferred application

Download Cyberduck Client: The Cyberduck installation package can be found on their website.

WinSCP

The premier award-winning SFTP Client for Windows with full desktop integration

• Integration with Windows and the PuTTY SSH client
• Task automation
• Feature-complete: Synchronized browsing, resume of transfers, integrated text editor, multiple language support and scripting
• Supports SFTP, WebDAV, FTPS and FTP
• Customizable user interface

Download WinSCP Client: The WinSCP installation package can be found on their website.

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Why I cannot upload files via the File Manager?

Depending on the Hosting plan which you are using, Free or Premium, the reason for which you are not able to upload your files could be different.

The first reason that could prevent you from uploading your files to the File Manager is the file size. On our free hosting plan we have set this limit to 15 MB. On our paid hosting plans the file size limit is set to 200 MB. If you would like to upload larger files you can do that via an FTP client such as FileZilla.

You might also reach the disk quota for your hosting account which would also prevent you from uploading files. If that is the case simply remove any unnecessary files to clean up some disk space and proceed with uploading your new files.

The last thing you might encounter is when uploading media or archive files. On our free hosting servers some file types are restricted for uploading and usage:
.htacl, .htaclu, .avi, .mov, .mp2, .mp3, .mpeg, .ram, .asf, .quota, .vbs, .shs, .scr, .exe, .cmd, .torrent, .wmv, .wma, .rm, .zip, .rar, .gz, .tgz

Thus uploading a media or archive file will fail. To upload such files you will have to upgrade to one of our premium hosting plans.

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• Uploading Data
• Downloading Data
• Renaming Files and Folders
• Moving Files and Folders
• Creating files and Directories
• Extracting Archives

Note: You can upload up to 20 files at a time!

Note: The AwardSpace file management utility does not support downloading entire folders due to browser limitations. If you wish to download a whole directory from your server, please use an FTP client program. For more information on how to establish an FTP connection, please review the How to connect through FTP? tutorial.

Please note that the following folder/directory names are system-reserved, so you cannot create folders or directories with these names:
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An alternative way is to right-click the file, select the Move To tab and specify a destination directory.

A new window will appear where you can specify your directory/file name.

Your newly created file/folder will appear in the current working directory.

Note: If you wish to create files and folders in the root directory of your account (/home/www/), you would need to disable the /home/www/ protection first.

To disable the directory protection for your account, click on the Disable button in the right corner of the pane.

Another way to extract archives is by right-clicking on the file and selecting Extract here.

The selected file will be extracted in the current directory on your AwardSpace server.

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