Help centre for evoftp, the free SFTP client from EvoSeedbox
evoftp is our free, open-source SFTP client for seedbox users. It exists for one reason: a normal SFTP client pulls a file…
This evoftp FAQ answers the questions that come up most often in tickets — what it costs, what it connects to, and…
The evoftp AppImage FUSE error — dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2, or the file simply doing nothing when you run it — means…
“Windows protected your PC” and “evoftp is damaged and can’t be opened” mean the same thing: the evoftp build you downloaded is…
The evoftp file not opening when you double-click it means your computer does not yet know which program owns the .evoftp type,…
An evoftp download stuck at 99%, or a finished file that is smaller than the one on the box, means the transfer…
An evoftp slow download is almost always one of four things: the profile does not suit your distance from the box, your…
“Connection timed out” means evoftp waited for the server’s SSH service and nothing answered; ECONNREFUSED means the server answered only to say…
This message means the server answered, but rejected the username or password you sent. It is the seedbox (SFTP) login that evoftp…
To uninstall evoftp, delete the program file; there is no installer and nothing runs in the background. Delete the config folder as…
An evoftp update is a file swap: download the new build, put it where the old one was, and your servers and…
evoftp keeps everything it remembers — saved servers, settings and passwords — in one folder on your computer. evoftp password storage is…
All the evoftp keyboard shortcuts are listed below. There are not many: the app is built for the mouse, and the keys…
By the end of this page you will know what each of the four evoftp advanced settings does and which values are…
By the end of this page you will have picked whichever of the four evoftp transfer profiles fits your connection. A profile…
By the end of this page you will have set where evoftp puts your downloads and whether it tells you when they…
By the end of this page you will have created a folder, renamed a file and deleted files on your seedbox (or…
By the end of this page you will have started a torrent on your seedbox without opening ruTorrent, by dropping the .torrent…
By the end of this page you will have sent files or folders from your PC to your seedbox. Uploads go into…
To resume an interrupted download in evoftp, download the same file into the same local folder again. There is no setting and…
By the end of this page you will know how to stop a transfer in evoftp, start a failed or cancelled one…
evoftp segments every file over 8 MB: it splits the file into byte ranges and pulls each range over its own SSH…
By the end of this page you will know how to give one download more connections than usual, or fewer, without touching…
By the end of this page you will have pulled files or a whole folder from your seedbox onto your PC with…
By the end of this page you will be able to pick one file, several files, or a whole run of them…
There are six ways to make evoftp navigate folders — double-click, the breadcrumbs, Back and Forward, Up, Home, and the keyboard —…
The evoftp window has four parts: a sidebar on the left, a toolbar across the top, two file panes in the middle,…
Your evoftp saved servers live in the Servers list at the top of the sidebar. From there you connect, edit a login,…
By the end of this page you will have typed your seedbox details into evoftp, connected, and have the server saved in…
By the end of this page your seedbox is saved in the evoftp sidebar and connected, without typing a hostname or password.…
By the end of this page evoftp runs on your Linux desktop from a single AppImage, on any 64-bit distribution. There is…
By the end of this page evoftp is in your Applications folder and opens normally on macOS 11 Big Sur or newer.…
By the end of this page evoftp is running on your Windows 10 or 11 PC (64-bit) and ready to open the…
