Click the Browse Files button for your instance to load it's filebrowser.

Navigating Your Files and Directories

The filebrowser starts you out in the root directory of your instance. All files have Expand icons that show you file creation and modify dates when clicked. Directories have folder icons to their left. Click the directory name or the folder to move you to that directory in the file browser. The filebrowser can only navigate directories for that instance. If you need to browse files for another instance you should use that other instance's filebrowser.

File Actions

Cortex gives you quite a few options to work with the files in your current directory. Some of these actions are listed to the right of the file or directory, and some are found below the file list. To the right of the file list you have the following options:

• Download the current file via your web browser.
• Delete the file. Be careful as deleting the wrong file may break your game instance.
• View the file. Clicking the View icon will reload the page with a text field below the file list containing the contents of your file. This option is only available for .txt, .cfg, .ini, .con, .inf, .log, .ban, .mapcycle, and .xml files.
• Edit the file. Click the Edit icon to open that file in a text field below the file list. Make your changes and click the Save icon to change the file. This option is available for the same types of files you can view, but is not available for config files controlled by Cortex. If you want to edit a config file directly use the config import functions.
• Rename the file. Click the Rename icon to open a new text field below the file list with the name of your file. Make your changes then click Save to rename the file.
• Unzip the file. If the file is a zip archive you can decompress its contents right into the current directory .

Cortex also has a number of actions available for multiple files and creating new files below the file list.

• Click the checkbox next to your given files and move them to another directory in your current directory. Select which files and directories you want to move, or select all of them by clicking the Select All checkbox, choose the Move option, choose the directory to move them to, and click the continue arrow to move your files.
• Copy selected files to any directory within your current directory. Follow the same procedure to move files, but select the Copy option in the dropdown list under the file list to create copies of your selected files rather than moving them.
• Delete the selected files. In the same dropdown list select Delete and click the continue arrow to delete your files. While this may be useful for deleting multiple files please be careful or you may render your instance unusable.
• Create a zip archive out of the selected files. Select the Archive option in the drop down list and enter the name of your zip archive to create a zip file out of the selected files. This option does not zip folders yet, only files.
• Below the dropdown list are options to create new directories and new files in the current directory. Enter the name of your directory or file in the appropriate text field and click the continue button. If you are creating a file the page will reload with a form for you to enter the contents of your file into a text field. Click the Save icon to save the file in your current directory.

If you need to download multiple files, such as PunkBuster screenshots, you can save a lot of time by selecting them in the file list, adding them to a zip archive in Cortex, then downloading the single zip file.

Uploading Files

The bottom of the file browser page has five form fields to upload up to five files from your local machine into the current directory. Select up to five files then click the Upload Files button to send them to your server. If you want to upload a map its best to use Cortex's built in map uplaoding functions so they can go into Cortex's database and you can use the map on the edit maps page.

If you need to upload more than five files into the directory zip them up on your home machine, upload the single file, then unzip it using the unzip file action. This can save you quite a bit of time.