The ADI Web Hosting File Manager

The File Manager in your Control Panel includes a fast, drag–and–drop feature that will let you transfer files between your computer and your website hosting account with no need to use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. You can drag data files from your computer and drop them in your Control Panel with a mouse–click through a safe SSL connection.

The drag’n’drop characteristic is built into the Control Panel, therefore, you will not need to mount any third party software to apply it. It also works well on all leading Operating Systems, so all you need to do to use it is sign in to your File Manager.

Most File Managers specify all of the actions that you can perform within a file or directory at the top of the webpage. We feel that this isn’t intuitive enough. Using the File Manager, you have access to all of the file control options any time you right–click a file or directory. This option is also valid for different files/folders.

It is easy to rename, copy, move, download, edit, preview, archive, unarchive and delete any file or directory you choose with just a mouse–click.

Thanks to the built in archive/unarchive solution, the File Manager will allow you to deal with huge files and not having to use FTP. You’ll be able to reduce the size of a folder to a compact size by simply clicking on the Compress button or get the belongings in an archived directory through the Extract button. When compressing a folder or a selection of files, it will be easy to decide on the archive extension (.ZIP, .RAR or .TAR.GZ) and the name of one’s archive file.

From the File Manager you’ll be able to edit your files directly online applying some of the inbuilt software tools. The text editor reveals the files in a plain text formatting, the code editor features syntax highlighting for your .PHP or .JS files, and then the WYSIWYG editor makes it possible to see all the edits while they show up live. Any changes you generate and keep will be displayed instantly on the Internet, allowing you to preview them in your browser and return to make extra changes, if unhappy.

You don’t have to download your files, to edit them on your personal computer and to re–upload them back in your account. All the editors are found through the buttons near the top of the file table or from the right–click contextual menus.

Each of the files in your cloud hosting account are neatly arranged into directories. Every single web host does have its primary folder, that follows the file hierarchy which you have selected. This way, it is really not difficult to control all of your hosts from one location with no risk of becoming lost or perplexed.

By standard, you will notice all of the hosts indexed in a table and if you click once over a specific host, you will see the whole set of sub–folders and files related to it. By clicking twice, you will go to a page which is centered on that host exclusively. An alternative way to open the folder associated with a given host and to use it solely, is by using the drop–down menu towards the top of the primary File Manager file table.

The ADI Web Hosting File Manager has been created in such a manner to help you feel similarly to using the services of the file explorer on your computer system. It functions a possibility to drag your files and then to drop them in a preferred location and displays all of the readily available edit alternatives after clicking the right mouse button. At the same time, the tool carries an in–built file preview solution as well as other file editors that will help you edit your files instantly directly from your Control Panel.

In addition, we’ve enclosed a couple of file management articles and how–to video clips to help you out quickly learn how to work with the tool.

Using the ADI Web Hosting File Manager, you can select a wide range of files or directories exactly like you do on your laptop or computer. Just keep pressed the Control (Command for Mac) key and click on the required files/folders. If you would like, to choose a good amount 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 have picked all of the files that you need, it’s possible to drag them to a pre–selected folder, or make use of the right–click context menu to check out an index of the available activities.

There is a single popular technique to guard a directory using a security password – by generating an .htaccess file. In case, however, you’re not technically experienced enough, you’ll have difficulty doing it by yourself. For making things straightforward, we’ve designed a time and effort saving password protection interface to the File Manager available inside the Control Panel.

To use the option, just right–click on a directory and pick Password Protection. Following that choose the login name plus the security password that you want to use and press the button. That’s it. Now the selected directory is going to be hidden from the public eye and will also be available only to approved visitors.