">transfer settings</a>.
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<h5>Changing Properties Recursively</h5>

<p>
If the selection contains at least one directory, there will be additional checkbox <em>Set group,
ownership and permissions recursively</em>. It will make WinSCP change the properties for all files
in selected directories.
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<p>
With <a href="protocols.htm#sftp">SFTP protocol</a> this can take considerable
time as the change must be made for each file specially. With
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