How to Use WinSCP to Download Files from an SFTP Server to a Mapped Network Drive and Delete Them

This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to use SSHFS-Win to connect to SFTP/SSH servers and map their directories as network drives on your Windows computer. This allows you to browse and manage remote files directly from Windows Explorer, just

Mapping a network drive over SSH in Windows allows secure access to remote files without relying on traditional SMB or FTP protocols. This method uses SSHFS-Win, which leverages the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to mount remote directories as local dr

I need to write a WinSCP script or batch file that will download the contents of a remote SFTP folder, delete contents and then upload to a mapped network folder.

Some servers list the drives in a root folder (/) as a virtual subdirectories (/X or /X:, where X is the drive letter). On other servers you will need to use Open directory command and type path to another drive manually.

To mount the file system of a remote server as a network drive in Windows, you can use the secure SSH protocol instead of the traditional SMB (Samba) connection.