Folders and team folders
The Folders page lists your folders. Folders need the Upload files permission.
Creating and nesting folders
New folder creates a folder with a Name (up to 32 characters). Open a folder to see its files and the folders inside it; folders can be nested up to 10 levels deep. Move in a folder's menu puts it inside another folder or back at the Top level, with everything in it.
To fill a folder, upload into it (the upload sheet's Folder option, or upload while the folder is open), use Move on files, or Manage files on the folder page to pick files from your library.
Public folders
Turn on Public to let anyone with the link view the folder's files. Copy public link copies its address (/folder/<id>).
- Visitors see the public folders inside a public folder, but not the private ones.
- Password protected files are listed as locked; visitors need the password to open them.
- Sensitive files, expired files and files in the trash are never shown to visitors. While AI is on, images and text files only appear once they have been checked.
- Download as archive downloads the folder, with the folders inside it, as a
.tar.gzarchive. Visitors' archives leave out locked and sensitive files.
Team folders
Share in a folder's menu gives other users access by Username, as a Viewer or an Editor. Access covers the folder and everything inside it, and the strongest role on the way down wins. Shared folders appear under Shared with me on the Folders page.
| Action | Viewer | Editor | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open, preview and download files, download as archive | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Upload files and create folders | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Rename files and folders | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Move files and folders to the trash | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Move files and folders | ✓ | ||
| Share the folder, change roles, make it public or private | ✓ | ||
| Change file settings (link name, password, expiry, views, sensitive) | ✓ | ||
| Delete forever | ✓ |
- Everything in a shared folder belongs to its owner. Files an editor uploads count toward the owner's storage limit, use the owner's AI settings and go to the owner's trash when deleted.
- An editor cannot delete the shared folder itself, only what is inside it.
- People with access lists the members. The owner can change a role or Remove access; a member can Leave folder.
- Members need the Upload files permission to open folder pages.
- Shared folders are not part of account backups, and do not appear in Fileship Harbor.
Inbox folder
If you use the inbox, files people send you land in a folder called Inbox. It and the folders that contain it cannot be deleted.
Deleting folders
Deleting a folder moves it to the trash together with the folders inside it. Its files move to the folder's parent, unless you tick Also delete the files inside, which trashes them with it. Restoring the folder brings back what was deleted with it.