Uploading or downloading files and folders
To upload files or folders to MFT Explorer, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the folder you want to upload by either using the tree view or the file view.
- Drag and drop the file into the file view of MFT Explorer to start the MFT Transfer Manager and upload the file.
- Optional: Click Upload and select the file or folder you want to upload.
- In the Select files to upload window, select the files or folder you want to upload.
- Click Open.
- The MFT Transfer Manager opens, and your files upload to the MFT server.
To download files or folders from MFT Explorer, follow these steps:
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In MFT Explorer, navigate to the file you wish to download.
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Click the file to download, then click Download.
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Optional: Right-click the file you want to download and select Open, Save, or Save As from the drop-down menu.
- Selecting Open downloads the file to your desktop. You can open it in the appropriate program. For example, Word Docs open in Microsoft Word and Excel Sheets open in Excel.
- Selecting Save downloads selected files directly to the Downloads folder of your desktop.
- Selecting Save As downloads selected MFT files or folders to a particular destination folder.
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After selecting a destination folder, click OK.
- If a file with the same name already exists on your desktop, a window will appear with options to Overwrite, Save with the versioned name, or Skip.
You can also select Apply the same action to the rest of the items.
- If a file with the same name already exists on your desktop, a window will appear with options to Overwrite, Save with the versioned name, or Skip.
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After making your selection, click OK. The file will open.
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To view the progress of all MFT file downloads, open theĀ MFT Transfers window by navigating to Tools > Active Transfers.