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Manage files

Upload, download, extract archives, edit. And why the editor has a different limit than the upload.

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The file manager

Files holds your server directory. New folder and New file create entries, and each entry has download, rename or move, and delete. You select several entries with the checkboxes and move or delete them together. A folder opens with a click, and the path at the top takes you back.

A text file opens in the editor with a click; you save with Save or Ctrl+S. Files that are not UTF-8 open read-only, because saving would destroy special characters. Binary files cannot be edited here.

Two different limits, because they answer two different questions: the editor only opens files up to a small size, because a browser tab should not display a 200 MB world as text. Uploads allow much more, because that is exactly what a modpack or a world needs. Both values are shown below the list.

Upload and extract

Drag files into the list or choose them via Upload. Progress is shown per file at the bottom, and single uploads can be cancelled. Folders are skipped when you drag them in: pack them as a ZIP and extract them here.

You extract an archive (.zip, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar) in place with Extract next to the file. Files with the same name are overwritten. That is the usual way for a modpack or a world: upload the archive, extract it, delete the archive.

Delete

Deleting is immediate and permanent; there is no recycle bin. Deleting a folder takes everything in it. The interface asks first.

The EULA

A Java server starts the first time, writes eula.txt and shuts down again straight away. That is normal.

  1. Open Files, click eula.txt.
  2. Change eula=false to eula=true.
  3. Save, start the server.

This means you accept Mojang's End User License Agreement. We cannot do this for you, because you are the one agreeing, not us.

Large files and many files

For a whole world, a plugin directory or dozens of configuration files, SFTP is the better route: a normal client like WinSCP or FileZilla, the same files.

Download

Download also works for files that are too large or too binary for the editor. You get a whole directory as a backup.