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Drupal File Manager - Filedepot

October 21, 2010 | Written by Steve Burge

One of the most frequent questions we've had in our Drupal training classes is ... "Does Drupal have a good file manager?".

The class attendees had often found solutions, but they were cobbled together from an assortment of modules and often lacked common features in file managers.

Our answer is Filedepot, which is an advanced file manager that works right out of the box and relies only on the CCK and Filefield modules.

Installing FileDepot

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You're going to need just three modules to make FileDepot work:

Go through the normal Drupal installation process for all three:

  1. Download the files
  2. Extract the files to a folder on your desktop
  3. Upload the folders to your /sites/all/modules/ folder
  4. Go to Administer >> Site Building >> Modules and enable the modules

Configuring Filedepot

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Once you've enabled Filedepot, there will also be a configuration area in Administer >> Site configuration >> Filedepot Settings

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You can change a wide number of items inside these setting. Perhaps most importantly for the people who have asked us about File managers, the "Base Setup" area you can decide where to store your files, you can even move them entirely off your site and into a remote storage area:

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Managing Filedepot

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When you've enabled Filedepot you'll see two links to set up your files and the folders to hold them.

Add Filedepot Files and Folders

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To get technical for a minute, this folder will actually be a node. Once you've created it, you can click on "Edit" and upload files directly to the folder.

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Once you've uploaded the files and saved the folder, you'll see them attached like this:

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Access Filedepot

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If you click on the main Filedepot link in your menu, you'll see a page like this. All your files and folders will be listed and can be managed from your Drupal admin interface.


 

 


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Comments  

 
#1 andras 2010-11-02 13:49
Hi,
thanks for this tuto. Do you know if fileDepot will be ported to Drupal 7 and when ? There's no information about that on the filedepot page.
 
 
#2 Gentlin 2011-03-18 05:44
Thanks for this wounder full tutorial..Really help full to me..but this module doesn't worked in IE....!
 
 
#3 NKumar 2012-03-14 23:05
Have you installed on Drupal 7 and linux. I cannot install it.. No UI is displaying. If you have done it could you please post the steps. Thanks.
 
 
#4 Ali 2012-03-16 10:10
Hi there,
thanks for helpful tutorial. I've installed and configured filedepot step by step as you said but in last step when i opened filedepot main link i faced with a blank page in drupal theme not a page like in your image. I'm new in drupal. should i do anything more?
tnx
 
 
#5 Tomas 2012-03-19 12:25
Hi, I also have just installed filedepot on drupal 7 and when I go to the filedepot I just get a blank page. I thought it was a problem with the inclusion of javascript for yui and grabbed that and made a local copy and adjusted the base url to point to my local yui but I still just get a blank area where I think the UI should be.
thanks,
 

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