Transfer files

The Files surface is a dual-pane SFTP browser — your local machine on the left, the remote device on the right — over the devices already in your inventory. It’s human input: the AI is structurally blind to it.

Steps

1. Click the Files tab in the left rail (the fourth rail tab).
2. Pick a device from your inventory to open its remote side. Transit connects over SFTP using the same credentials and host-key trust as an SSH session — nothing new to set up. (On a first-ever connect you’ll get the usual host-key confirmation.)
3. Browse: your local files fill the left pane, the device’s the right. Open folders on each side independently, and create, rename, or delete entries from the toolbar or the right-click menu.

Move a file — four ways

Transfers go either direction. Use whichever fits your hands:

1. Double-click a file to send it to the other pane’s current folder.
2. Select rows and use the toolbar upload / download button.
3. Drag rows between the panes.
4. Drag in from Finder / Explorer onto the remote pane to upload.

Folders transfer recursively, and each file’s modification time is preserved.

The transfer queue

Each transfer shows in a live queue with per-file progress, speed, and a Cancel button. If a transfer would overwrite an existing file, Transit asks once with a batch choice — Overwrite all, Skip, or Cancel. If the connection drops mid-transfer, Transit reconnects in place so you can resume.

No Files tab?

If there’s no Files tab in the rail, an administrator has disabled the surface with [files] enabled = false in Transit’s config.toml (it doubles as a DLP control). It’s on by default. See File transfer for the full surface, including where the config file lives.