Navigating the File Management page

Navigating the File Management page

In addition to providing storage space for your articles and photos, your blog also provides a File System -- a space where you can store files.

Reasons for storing files in your blog

You have images that you don't want to store in a Photo Album.

To store sounds, music or videos that you want to post to your blog or share.

You want to make documents available for download from your blog.

You want to put up some regular web pages.

To act as a "holding pen" or "backup storage" for the files on your computer

Navigating the file system

To navigate your file system, click the File Manager tab on the Publisher Control Panel to open the File Manager page:

File Manager page contents

File System tree
The left column of the File Manager page is a graphic representation of your file system. The main directory is called Home, and it contains all the other directories and files in your file system. As with the file system on your computer, directories can contain files and sub-directories. The graphic example above shows two directories contained in the the Home directory: article_photos and documents.

By default, when you open the File Manager page, the Home directory is selected on the File System tree, and its contents are displayed in the File and Directory Listings area.

To look at the contents (files or directories) of another directory, you can either:

click its name in the Fle System tree

click its name in the File and Directory Listing

Options area
Set the number of files to display in the File and Directory Listing area. Use also to create new sub-directories.

Upload New File area
Specify which file you want to upload from your computer to the file system, and upload it.

File and Directory Listings area

This area, located below the Options and the Upload New Files areas, contains columns with the following information about each file or directory:

Name
This column contains the name of the item in the current directory. If the item is a directory, clicking its name opens the File Manager for that directory, making it the current directory. The selected directory is highlighted in the file system hierarchy area, and the File and Directory Listing displays its contents.
If the item is a file, clicking its name will open the file in the current browser window.

Size
If the item is a file, its size is displayed in this column.

Uploaded
If the item is a directory, this is the time and date when the directory was either uploaded (copied from a computer to your blog's file system) or created. If the item is a file, this is the time when the file was uploaded (copied from a computer to your blog's file system).

Action
This column contains icons that represent actions that you can execute on directories and files. There are two possible actions:

Edit

If the item is a directory, clicking this icon takes you to the Edit Directory page for the directory, which lets you rename it.

If the item is a file, clicking this icon takes you to the Manage File page for the file, which displays its properties and lets you rename it or move it to another directory.

Blog This

This applies only to files. Clicking this icon takes you to the Post Article page. The file is inserted entry.

Delete
Check this box to mark the item for deletion, then click the Delete Selected button at the bottom of the File and Directory Listing.

Note: If a directory contains items it cannot be deleted.