How to copy files to Raspberry Pi over Network from Windows

This video will show you how to copy even large files to your Raspberry Pi from Windows, and from the Pi to Windows.
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First, go on your Raspberry Pi, open the terminal, and type in ifconfig and hit enter. This will give you a list of the network interfaces, and their IP addresses. Find the interface you are using (likely eth0 for wired, wlan0 for wireless) and write down the IP address.
Then in the terminal, type sudo raspi-config and hit enter. Then go down to interfacing options, and hit enter. Then scroll to SSH and hit enter, and arrow to yes, and hit enter one more time. Then just go to finish to go back to the terminal.
Then go to your windows computer, and download winscp. You can get this from www.ninite.com
Open winscp, and put in the Raspberry Pi IP address in the hostname, and the Raspberry Pi username and password. Because you have enabled SSH, it is highly recommended to change the password from the default pi/raspberry.
Next just hit login, and it will take you to a Window with two file structures. The one on the left is Windows, and the one on the right is the Pi. Simply navigate to the file you want to transfer, and then drag it to where you want it to copy on the other side, and it will copy it over. Large files may take a few minutes, but overall the process should be very fast.
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[@jimkaye8160]

Very clear explanation, clear video (not always the case on YT), clear voice/audio(again, not always the case). Couldn't ask for more! I had it running in a few minutes on my Win 10 PC. THANK YOU!!

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[@cdl1701]

I have been using my Raspberry Pi to run my OX CNC for years now and was just using a USB stick to move files.. WHY did I not think of doing this sooner!! Thanks so much for the video!

[@EnricoCarusoAKARicoSuave1973]

Thanks for the quick and simple instructions!

[@RandyHouk]

Thanks very much for this clear instructional. I'm now transferring files back and forth to my Pi 400.

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[@dad0594]

Thank you so much. This advice was awesome and "on point". Up until now, whenever I wanted to add files to my "Pi" I had to disconnect a monitor and keyboard just to use it and then.... what a headache. This made things so much easier. I use Plex for my music streaming and it worked perfectly. thanks again.

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[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

Sudo raspi-config
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[@AmpliFreQuency]

I knew this was a method on how to transfer via SCP, but could not remember what the name of the program was. My first search result lead me to this video. Thank you!

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[@wjcroft72]

Another easy way to do this is with the xrdp, RDP server on the Pi. After you RDP connect to the Pi, the desktop shows a folder: 'thinclient_drives'; this can be mapped to your Windows C: drive, from the Windows RDP client settings / options. Be sure to turn off the Printer sharing, before turning on the C: share. A bug in xrdp prevents drive mapping from working if printer sharing is turned on.

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[@l_amp]

THANK YOU oh my god. i have a minecraft server running on my pi and im not super good at linux yet so when the server got into a crash loop it took so long to compress and transfer files over, sort the issue, compress and send back but now i dont have to worry about compressing or extracting on my pi

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[@AlejandroRodolfoMendez]

As recommendation you can use software like angry IP scanner to get what IP every PC is and get easier the process.

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Thanks

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Game Changer!

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[@gamesandpctipstricks8855]

dose his copy it or dose it just provide a shortcut to acsess it? im wanting to use my raspberry pi to acsess shared documents on a LAN but not to copy them to the pi

[@apr194828]

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[@marieoliveres892]

Great! Now,how do I unzip files on the Raspberry Pi 400 running Octopi desktop? I'm trying to upload STL files to Octoprint but it won't let me. So I'm trying to install a slicer but all it does is ask what to open the zip files with and idk. Unless there's a plugin in Octoprint I don't know about? Total noob here!

[@mariyasebastian2824]

Can this work to transfer files from raspberry pi to a pc in another network? Like whether it will be able to access files from pi anywhere in the world.?

[@christopherritsch9244]

So why can my Raspberry Pi in Virtualbox see my workstation but not vice versa? I can ping Raspi to laptop but not the other way around. They are on different subnets (w.x.0.z vs. w.x.2.z).

[@sheaward126]

assume i dont know what the first 3 minutes is. how do i open the command terminal

[@tubular26]

How do I do the same with latest Mac OS

[@scott6992]

Also try the scp command in the command prompt

[@christianpaulsalinas1618]

Te amo wey xd...thx!!!

[@TADMonty]

When I restart my Pi this setting gets deactivated... how do I make it stay active?

[@j_owatson]

Just in case you haven't solved it yet try making a file in the boot directory called "ssh" no extension required.

[@alvarezricardo5081]

Can these files be accesed programatically

[@gigajoules6636]

Fallen at the first hurdle, your command is not available on kali :(

[@The3rdPlateau]

Oh thank goodness. I was kind of annoyed at the prospect of having to do all of this through the terminal on the Pi side of things, but this will give me a way to use a graphical interface!
Is it possible to use this with a direct Ethernet connection, too? Just grab the IP address for the Pi's Ethernet adapter instead of using the WLAN address?

[@himbary]

Sure, its the same

[@ennuiiunne5319]

Winscp does not install on my Windows 7 computer.

When trying to copy a file is says "Permission Denied"

[@patriciavalentina7303]

Thanks for this video! I tried it, but the raspberry denied the permission. How can I change that?

[@hunt7129]

i have the same problem! did you find any solutions?

[@nathanielmontanez1652]

If you haven't found a solution yet, try this:
1. In the terminal type sudo raspi-config
2. Select System Options
3. Select Password
4. Select Ok and change your password.
5. Try the process in the video again

[@Mohas191]

or you can use AnyDesk. You can see the HDMI output of the rpi4 and access files. Check anydesk rpi4 version to download it (on their official website)

[@Gamertal]

Mohas191 thank god you mentioned that I’ve been using anydesk for a long time and didn’t realize it was supported by the pi

[@abreezy1st]

Is there a way to automate this process? Using a scripting language? Was thinking of implementing this but wanted some kind of pointer.

[@howtwos101]

Definitely, there are many options and depend on if you want to run the script from the Windows side or the Linux side. The most agnostic method to do it would be Python, because then you could utilize and almost identical script on both systems. Almost any other mainstream programming language would have SCP support as well. You could also quite easily accomplish it through Bash scripting on the Pi, I think it would be a bit more difficult to implement on the Windows side with batch/powershell scripting, but likely still possible.

[@abreezy1st]

@@howtwos101 im not on the same network as my pi how can i connect to it with winscp if im on a different wifi?

[@abreezy1st]

@@howtwos101 my local machine is connected via Ethernet and the raspberry pi is on a guest wifi

[@howtwos101]

@@abreezy1st Can you connect it to the non-guest wifi? That would make it simplest, or to also connect the Pi with Ethernet. If they are not on the same local network (a local network can have both Wifi and Ethernet) then this process becomes much more difficult, involving port forwarding and public IP addresses.

[@Monfreaky]

it says that i do not have permission to do this...

[@nathanielnicholas597]

Pascal???

[@jotirlingswami9357]

my raspberry pi 4 has very low copy speed lower than 2 mb/s

[@funy0n583]

-sh: sudo: not found

[@dreamspacepresident3356]

I don't get the downvotes. What's NOT on point about this video?

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THANK You for posting this. I just spent 2 hours trying to make Samba work...NOT!