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Files

Put files on your automation account and get a public address for them, or keep them private. Read what your workflows wrote. Support Plus and above.

Files are the folders on your automation account (your n8n). Your workflows read and write them, and the hub shows them under Knowledge, Files. Claude Code can use them too: put an image up and get its public address, fetch a report a workflow wrote, or tidy a folder.

Files comes with Support Plus, Pro and Embedded. The account's owner also switches on Open your automation account's file folders in Settings, Privacy. Claude can't switch that on for you. Ask "is Files on?" and Claude checks (awesomate_files, status), and tells you what's missing if it isn't.

#Three folders

A public address looks like https://<your account>.awesomate.io/files/public/brand/logo.png. Use it in a web page, an email or a social post.

#Put a file up

Put logo.png from my desktop in my public files and give me the link.

awesomate_files, upload, sends the file straight from your computer, so its contents never pass through the chat. Each upload can be up to 50 MB. Claude puts a file in public/ only when you want it publicly reachable.

#Make a file public, or private again

Make private/brochures/autumn.pdf public.

make_public moves the file to the same place under public/ and answers its address. Claude asks you first, because anyone with the address can then open it. make_private moves it back to private/, and its public address stops serving it within seconds. The same goes for a public file you delete, and a file you replace shows its new version. A browser that already opened the file may keep its own copy for a while, and a copy someone downloaded isn't recalled.

Moving or renaming changes a file's path, and its address if it's public. Claude tells you when a workflow, page or app might still use the old one.

#Find and fetch

Find the invoices my workflow saved this week and download the latest one.

search finds files by name across the folders (up to 200 matches). list shows one folder. download saves a file to your computer and never overwrites one already there unless you say so.

#Tidy up

Delete everything in temp/old-exports.

delete moves a file or folder to the trash. It isn't erased straight away, and it no longer counts toward your space. Anything in the trash for 90 days is erased automatically. Claude asks before each delete.

What's in the trash? Empty everything older than a month.

trash shows what's in the trash and when each was deleted. empty_trash erases it for good, all of it or only what was deleted more than a number of days ago. That can't be undone, so Claude shows you what will go and empties it only after your yes. You can also empty it on the Files page in the hub.

#How much space you have

status shows how much you've used. When your space is full, an upload is refused (files_storage_full). Claude says how much is used and offers to find large or old files to remove. Files your workflows write count too.

#Your workflows and your files

Your n8n reads and writes the same folders through the Local Files node that Awesomate templates use to save files, with paths like public/reports/weekly.pdf. So a workflow can make an image and put it in public/, and Claude can hand you its address. Some Awesomate templates already do this, such as the Kie task manager, which saves what it makes under public/kie/.

#Unpack a zip

Unzip private/uploads/photos.zip.

extract unpacks a .zip into a folder beside it, named after it. The zip itself stays where it was.

#Learn about your business from a file

Read our brochure in private/brochures and fill in our business details from it.

context_scan reads one file and suggests business details from it, saving nothing: the ones you haven't filled in yet, and the ones that differ from what's saved. Claude shows you each one; you save the ones you want yourself, in the hub (Files, the file's menu, Scan for business context), because what is saved there counts as your own word. Scanning needs Learn Business Context from My Files switched on in Settings, Privacy, and only you can switch it on.

To make a folder of files searchable in your Knowledge, see Knowledge.