SourceForge Support Documentation

Using our Web-based File Manager

Our File Manager lets you upload and manage your project files that are available to download by the public. If the web-based client is not for you, you can also use SFTP or SCP or Rsync

Requirements

• File size: All file releases should be a single file. Multiple files for the same release should be archived together (tar, deb, zip, etc.). We recommend using rsync for all uploads over 100 MegaBytes in size, as rsync allows for resuming canceled or interrupted transfers. Read more about how to do this on our Shell Services page.
• You must be a project admin or have the "release technician" permission to manage files for a project.
• Allowed characters for files and directories are: -_ +.,=#~@!()[]a-zA-Z0-9 (including " " - space). Disallowed characters are: & : % ? / * $ Filenames may not start with a space or dot ("."), and may not end with a space (" ").

Using the Web Interface

Select Files from the Project menu. This is both the file manager (for admins) and the file browser (for visitors).

Adding Files and Folders

To create a folder, click Add Folder
To upload a file, click Add File
Click Browse, and select your file(s)
Click Upload

File Information

Clicking on the icon enables your visitors to see more information about the file, such as SHA1 and MD5 hashes, how many times the file has been downloaded, and whether or not it is the default distribution for an OS. As a project admin, you can also click this icon to edit information about the individual file.

Modifying a File's Metadata

To rename a file or folder, click the icon and edit the name.
Note: download statistics are based on the file name, so stats for this file will be reset. Your total project download count will include the previous name's stats.
To delete a file or folder, click the "-" icon
Note: Users are responsible for backing up all of their files. SourceForge.net will not restore individual files.
To change file details, click the icon
"Exclude stats" will omit this file from being counted in the download statistics
"Default download for" controls which file is the recommended download for visitors, based on their OS. If not set for any file in the project, heuristics are used to automatically pick a recent upload with an appropriate file extension for the OS.

Release notes

The file browser will show any README file it finds in the current folder (or parent folder) below the file listing. This is useful to provide release notes, download instructions, etc. and it is highly recommended you make this available to your end-users. See Here for more details

Known limitations

Moving files between directories may be accomplished via [SFTP], but cannot be done with the web file manager.