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WinSCP Overview

What is WinSCP?

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client and SCP client for Windows (only for Windows). Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

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WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client and SCP client for Windows (only for Windows). Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.


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WinSCP
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2000
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Sathyaseelan C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One Stop Solution for File Transfer"
GUI is always very much user friendly. File transfer is very ease Security at the top level. Multiple levels of security in login page
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Gurudatta B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"WinSCP"
Ease of integration with different softwares like Datastage
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Austin O.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good Quality Solution"
It is easy to use, and support is always good.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

GUI is always very much user friendly.

File transfer is very ease

Security at the top level.

Multiple levels of security in login page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Connection will drop and attempts to reconnect quite often Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Working in two differnet timezones and communication on file transfers to shared drives cause lot misleads. After using Winscp file transfers were ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Datastage Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

Ease of integration with different softwares like Datastage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

i didnot find any dislikes about WinSCP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

it helps in Datastage job to send file to the correct location and also to receive files from multiple source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

It is easy to use, and support is always good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

No issues from my standpoint. Never had any problems using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quality assessment with the parts we manufacture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hiren V.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

-Easy to login

-Always remembering the most recent folder which was opened recently

-Easy to transfer file between Windows and Linux server machine, using drag and drop you can perform the file transfer operation

-Creating folder and renaming is also good feature

-Opening multiple session is also possible will give user more option for file transfer

-Simple GUI to use for file transaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Sometime file is not getting refreshed automatically even if those file updated on either machine(Windows or Linux) so, you have to make refresh before coping those files

Sometime if you are transferring lager file at that time it took usually bit time to get the file transfer complete Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was doing file transfer manually before I get to know WinScp, like coping the file using USB device externally I'm dong the coping file between Windows and Linux machine.

But as soon as I started using WinScp, it is very easy for me to do the file copy between Linux and Windows machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about WinSCP?

The ease of transferring files securely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

File uploads do not refresh in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allows easy file transfers on a secure protocol. Perfect solution for file integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raghav  G.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

The software layout is easy to use for everyone. It is easy to install and connect to remote system. I use it mostly for data transfer from my Windows computer to a remote server. The files can be transferred to a specific path and as the path can be navigated easily even when connected to a linux machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

The software is slow while transferring large files upwards of 100Gb and occasionally crashes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a software product company and our product is installed on servers. We use the WinSCP tool to connect to remote servers and copy our software files. We also use the software to copy data backups from a remote server to a local machine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andy G.
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Consulting Software Engineer
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

WinSCPs features are almost boundless, but the parts I could not live without are:

1) The ability to open a putty session from the file SFTP/SSH session.

2) Hierarchy of organization of server configurations.

3) Context menu SSH commands like unzip, tar/gzip, grep etc.

4) Synchronized browsing (navigating local and remote directory structures simultaneously).

5) Filer synchronization with configurable preview.

6) Optionally recursive permissions setting.

7) Active development brings new features, improved protocols and security updates.

8) Local editing of remote files with on-save upload (live editing).

9) Slug based folder navigation and folder history.

10) Remote server to second remote server file synchronization.

11) Copy file/folder names with or without paths.

12) Segregated session logging.

13) Configurable Powershell commands and macros for file and folder manipuation.

14) Savable Workspaces

14) It's open source.

15) Dark theme. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

I had to dig deep to find something I didn't like, but the calculate directory size context menu doesn't take advantage of the underlying SSH capabilities, and it can take a while to scan every path sequentially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a full-time programmer and web developer, I use WinSCP for Windows-based file transfers when live editing or transferring files. It's especially beneficial for uploading and then decompressing archives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikas K.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

WinSCP is helpful in many ways to download, upload, provide permissions to the file(s) or folder(s). Also, we can open the file to view content and it is the most secure and fastest way to access the server directories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

System administrators sometimes face timeout issue or connection lost while they tries to access or download file from the server. It should rather prompt for Access Denied and remains connected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software does not even require to install and we can easily utilize it for downloading or uploading, that is, file transfer without any security breach issue. Even, it is approved software for one of the biggest Finance customer that currently I am handling. Hence, we can say that it is the most secure and we get patches on regular basis to avoid vulnerabilities in old version of WinSCP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oladotun J.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

I love the navigation of the graphical user interface and the drag and drop functionality to move files between two remote hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

So far, nothing to be disliked since usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

Movement of files from local to remote host.

Editing files on a remote host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Erik D.
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What do you like best about WinSCP?

The interface is very user friendly and easy to learn, so it is a tool that can be used also by a newbie. Can connect easily to a number of different systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about WinSCP?

Sometimes the handling of hung connections is not seamless, and big file transfers can interrupt abruptly without notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is WinSCP solving and how is that benefiting you?

WinSCP allows us to connect renotely to different systems and manage file transfers and shell-based monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.