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The Files & Folders Screen

What each part of the screen is, and what it tells you.

Three panes: folders on the left, files in the middle, and details on the right when a single file is selected.

The sidebar

New folder button button optional

Top right of the Folders header. Opens the create dialog with a name, a Create Inside parent and a Storage Service.

All Files view optional

Every file in the brand with its total. A view, not a folder — you cannot upload into it.

Folder tree tree optional

Folders with an arrow have children. Up to eight levels deep.

Folder counts count optional

Collapsed, a folder shows everything beneath it including subfolders. Expanded, it shows only its own files and the children show theirs.

Unfiled view optional

Files belonging to no folder.

Storage usage summary optional

At the foot of the sidebar: how much you are storing on each of the two services.

The header and file area

Folder name and count label optional

Which folder you are looking at and how many files it holds.

Search files search optional

Matches file names and tags, within the folder you are in. Search from All Files to cover everything.

Grid / list toggle toggle optional

Thumbnails, or a denser row-per-file list.

Upload button optional

Opens a file picker for the current folder. Dragging files onto the area does the same.

Untagged banner notice optional

Appears while any image or PDF is untagged, with the counts and a Fix This button to the File Tagger.

Paging control optional

50 files a page, with Previous and Next beneath the grid.

The selection bar

Selected count label optional

Appears from the first selection, with the gestures spelled out beside it.

Select all on this page button optional

Takes the 50 files currently shown.

Clear button optional

Drops the selection without changing anything.

Move button optional

Opens the destination picker showing the whole folder tree.

Delete button optional

Permanently removes the selected files, after a confirmation.

The detail panel

Breadcrumb path optional

The folder the file is in, as a clickable chain. Tells you where a file found through search actually lives.

Preview image optional

A thumbnail of the file where one can be shown.

File name text optional

The display name, which is not the same as the stored object's name.

Type text optional

The media type, such as image/jpeg.

File URL url optional

The address of the file, with a copy button. Present for files on the public delivery service; files in private storage are not served this way.

Storage label optional

Which of the two services this file sits on, inherited from its folder.

Size text optional

The file size on disk.

Download / Move / Delete buttons optional

Actions for this one file. Delete uses the same confirmation as a bulk delete.

Limits

Limit Value
Maximum file size 64 MB per file
Folder nesting 8 levels
Files per page 50
Simultaneous uploads 3 at a time; the rest queue
Accepted types JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, SVG, MP4, WebM, MOV, MP3, WAV, AAC, PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, MD, WOFF2

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