The File Manager is your server's files in a browser tab — every folder, with a proper code editor built in. You'll use it to drop in a config, fix a line of code, upload a world, or dig out a crash report. Open it from your server menu; your files live under the root folder shown at the top.
Getting around
Click folders to open them and use the breadcrumb trail at the top to jump back up a level. Create file and Create folder make new ones on the spot.
Getting files in
The Upload menu takes single files or a whole folder at once, and you can drag and drop straight onto the page. Each file can be up to 10 GB. On premium there's also Pull from URL — download a file straight from a link — and a shortcut to the server importer. For anything really big, or for syncing a whole project folder, a desktop SFTP client is smoother than the browser.
The editor
Click any text file to open it. On desktop that's the same engine that powers VS Code, so it feels familiar:
| Editor feature | How |
|---|---|
| Find & replace | Ctrl+H |
| Word wrap | Alt+Z |
| Language selector | In the corner, for syntax highlighting |
| Auto-save | Optional, every two minutes |
💡 Tip: If you save a file that has a syntax error, the editor warns you first — a small thing that heads off a lot of "why won't it start" moments.
On a phone or tablet the editor quietly swaps that engine for a lighter, touch-friendly one so it stays fast on a small screen — same files, same saving, just built for a smaller display. You don't switch anything; it happens automatically.
Finding things
The search box finds files by name, by what's inside them, or both. Content search reads up to 2 MB per file and its results can be exported — great for hunting down which config holds a setting, or where an error string comes from.
Working with lots of files at once
Tick the checkboxes to act on several items together. The mass actions cover Copy, Cut, Paste, Download, Archive (zip them up), Move, Transfer to another server, Permissions (chmod), and Delete. One free-plan note: archives you create are cleaned up automatically after 24 hours, and the panel tells you so when you make one.
🎯 Good to know: Deleting doesn't go straight to oblivion — files land in Trash, where you can restore them.
Minecraft: see your world on a map
Open a Minecraft world's region folder (the one full of .mca files) and a World View button appears. It renders those region files into a top-down map of your world that you can pan and zoom around — a much friendlier view than a folder of cryptic filenames. It's also the easy way to reclaim disk: spot the far-flung regions a wandering player generated and delete them right from the map.
Seeing what's using your space
A disk-usage breakdown opens as a modal with a pie chart, so you can see at a glance which folders are eating your storage — usually worlds, node_modules, or old backups.
When to reach for SFTP instead
The File Manager handles day-to-day edits beautifully. When you're moving gigabytes, uploading past what the browser is comfortable with, or keeping a local folder in sync, switch to SFTP.
Next: the Console for running what you've uploaded.