Visual Studio Code Tools for AI comes with a Storage Explorer.
You can manage the storage on PAI clusters and Remote Linux VMs within VS Code. Storage Explorer supports creating/deleting/uploading/download files and folders.
There are two ways to open the Storage Explorer.
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Context menu of AI EXPLORER nodes.
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Executing the command AI: Open Storage Explorer from Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).
Depends on which way you use and which platform you chose, you may need to provide more information. For example, the cluster node/remote machine, the storage volumn, or the root directory, etc.
To make changes on remote storage, right click the target node in Storage Explorer and use the context menu.
- For File node, "Download" and "Delete" are supported.
- For Folder node, supported operations are listed below:
Upload # Upload a file.
Upload Folder # Upload all contents under specified folder recursively.
Download # Download a file / folder to local disk. If a folder is specified, all contents under this folder will be downloaded recursively.
New Folder # Create a sub folder under specified folder.
Delete # Delete a file / folder. If a folder is specified, it will be deleted recursively.
Once a file is downloaded, you can choose to preview it in VS Code window or jump to its location on local disk in message window: