Copy whole folders between Media and the File Store

Last time we showed how Media Pro copies files between Media and the File Store. Now it copies whole folders too.

A folder of photos onto your site

Say a photographer uploads an event to a File Store folder called Summer fair, with a subfolder for each day. Open Media, go to where you want it, and click Import from the File Store. Your own folders are listed with your files. Tick Summer fair and press Import.

A new Summer_fair folder appears in Media, with the day folders and every picture inside. It is ready for a page or a gallery.

You can start from the File Store instead. Right-click one of your folders and choose Copy to Media, or select a few and use Copy to Media in the bar above the list.

A Media folder into the File Store

Right-click a folder in Media, or select several, and choose Copy to the File Store. Pick one of your File Store folders. The copy arrives as a new folder of the same name with its subfolders, private until you share it.

Good to know

• These are copies. Nothing is moved, and nothing on a page changes.
• If a folder with that name is already there, the copy gets the next free name, so nothing is mixed in or replaced.
• Each file inside gets the same checks as a file copied on its own: Media's upload rules on the way in, and your File Store space and size limits on the way out. The panel lists anything that could not be copied.
• You can copy your own File Store folders. A manager cannot copy a member's folder into Media.
• Up to 1,000 files in one go.

Read more in the user manual: Media Pro and File Store. Media Pro comes with the Pro plan: ask us about it.