The Portland Support File Manager

Moving data files between your desktop machine and any of your sites is now quick and easy, thanks to the drag–and–drop option provided by the File Manager. You can easily pull data files from your desktop computer or notebook and drop them in your Web Control Panel through a secure SSL connection. That’s it. It usually takes just a few seconds to upload a file and slightly longer for bigger data files and folders.

You do not have to install any third party application or browser add–ons. The drag & drop capability built into the File Manager works just as well on all major OS’s.

Thanks to the right–click menus that we have put into the File Manager, it is possible to revise all of your files incredibly easy. Just click on a file or directory and with the panel that will show up, choose the activity you want. You can rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any selected file. Should you click on a folder, additionally, you’ll see the option to generate a completely new sub–folder or file inside it.

When you select multiple files or directories, you are able to use the same procedures to all of them simultaneously.

Due to the built in archive/unarchive solution, the File Manager allows you to make use of big files and not having to use FTP. You can easily reduce the size of a directory to a small size by simply clicking on the Compress button or access the contents of an archived folder through the Extract button. Whenever compressing a folder or a variety of files, you are able to decide on the archive extension (.ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ) and then the name of one’s archive file.

We’ve integrated a group of file editors in the Web Control Panel to assist you generate quick and simple transformations to your files and never having to employ third party apps. With the File Manager you can find a WYSIWYG editor that will help you monitor all the current changes you create right away, a code editor that boasts syntax emphasizing for your personal .PHP or .JS files, and also a plain text editor for more experienced users. All the changes that you come up with and keep can be demonstrated promptly online.

You have access to the file editors using the buttons at the top of the file table and / or by right–clicking any file/folder.

When you are handling a bunch of web sites at the same time, it is vital that you have everything sorted out. With many other File Managers, revising a range of web sites in the exact same web hosting account is extremely difficult. With the File Manager, you will see that it’s in fact pretty simple. Every single site features its own folder, which you’ll right away recognize, including all of the files associated with the given website are found there.

And also to make things so much easier, you will find there’s a drop–down navigation where it’s easy to select on which web host you would like to work within the File Manager. Our clever system will take you there in no time.

Most web File Managers are slow–moving and challenging to use. They give limited functions and are not really user–friendly. We hope to change that by means of the Portland Support File Manager. It was designed to be user–friendly and also to seem like something you already know – the File Manager on your desktop.

All its attributes, the drag’n’drop file upload options, the right–click context menus, the integrated file editors, etc. are available for 1 purpose – to help make controlling your website(s) a lot easier.

When using the Portland Support File Manager, you can actually pick out a wide range of files or folders like you do on your desktop machine or notebook. Simply press the Control (Command for Mac) key and click on the wanted files/folders. If you’d like, to choose a lot of files/folders at the same time, click one file/folder, hold down the Shift key and click on any other file or folder.

Once you’ve chosen all the files that you want to, you are able to drag them to a distinct location, or make use of the right–click context menu to view a list of the accessible activities.

There is a single widespread approach to shield a directory using a pass word – by creating an .htaccess file. In case, however, you’re not technologically experienced enough, you’ll have issues doing it all on your own. To make things straightforward, we’ve integrated an intuitive password protection user interface to the File Manager available inside the Web Control Panel.

To use the option, simply right–click on a folder and pick Password Protection. After that add the username as well as the pass word that you like to implement and click on the button. That’s it. Now the particular directory is going to be hidden from the public eye and will also be available to approved account holders.