Upload files to your Rover

On Windows
Download and install WinSCP​
Connect to the Rover's WiFi.
Just after you open the software it will ask you for the Rover login details, as always:
IP: 10.0.0.1 | Login: pi | Password: raspberry
and click login.
Now in the right window you'll see all the files located in your Rover.
You can upload files by dragging them from your local computer and dropping them inside Leo Rover's filesystem.
On Linux or Mac
You can use scp tool for this. Just type:
scp [local_path] [email protected]:[remote_path]
If you want to copy a whole directory you can add -r option
scp -r [local_path] [email protected]:[remote_path]
if [remote_path] is a relative path it will be resolved in /home/pi namespace (e.g. [email protected]:leo will be resolved to /home/pi/leo). 
To show more options, type man scp 
Alternatively you can use sshfs to mount remote file system into your local directory
mkdir -p [local_path]
sshfs [email protected]:[remote_path] [local_path]
Now you can just put files inside [local_path] and it will be automatically synchronized with a remote directory.
When you're done just unmount the directory by typing
sudo umount [local_path]
File Permissions
By default, when logging as pi user, you have write permission only on files inside /home/pi directory. This should be sufficient in most cases but if you really need to upload files outside of the home directory you have a couple of options.
Recommended: take ownership of the directory
First, login to the Rover via ssh:
Connect via SSH
Create a directory if it doesn't exist
mkdir -p [upload_directory]
Now, assign the ownership of that directory
sudo chown -R pi:pi [upload_directory]
This will change ownership of [upload_directory] and all files inside it to pi user
Not recommended: upload files by logging into root account
Root logging is disabled by default. If you want to turn this on you can follow these instructions. 
You can then get access to all files by logging to root instead of pi
Modifying the root filesystem can be a destructive operation so if you don't fully understand what you're doing, make sure to backup your files first.

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