# Folderline folders - Fileline 1.x documentation

> Make downloads from Media Library files and folders, and list a folder's files as downloads with the Folder downloads block.

> [!NOTE]
> This is part of **Fileline Pro**.

**Folderline** is Extendiment's free plugin for Media Library folders. With both active, Fileline Pro turns folders into downloads. Without Folderline, the folder parts simply aren't there; the Media Library's **Create download** actions still work.

## Make a download from a file

In **Media → Library**'s list view, every file has a **Create download** link (and **Edit download** once it is one). It makes a draft download with the file as version 1.0 and opens it, so you can add a description and publish. These actions work on files you can edit: an Author can make downloads from their own files only.

Select several files and choose **Create downloads** from the bulk actions to make published downloads from all of them at once.

With Folderline, a download made from a file in a folder goes into a **download category** named like the folder (made if needed), so a "Care guides" folder gives a "Care guides" category for your download lists.

## Make downloads from a whole folder

Open a folder's menu in the folder tree (right-click it, or use its "…" button) and choose **Create downloads from these files**. Every file in the folder that isn't a download yet becomes a published download.

## The Folder downloads block

![The Folder downloads block](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/977/screenshot-6-ee85ca8b.png)

Add the **Folder downloads** block and choose a folder. It lists the folder's files that are downloads, with their buttons, in the same style as the Download list block (order, search box, details under the buttons). Tick **Include subfolders** to list theirs too.

If some files in the folder aren't downloads yet, the block's editor shows how many, with a **Create downloads for them** button. Downloads are counted and protected like any other, and each one keeps its own page, versions and access rules.

Without Folderline, a Folder downloads block already on a page shows nothing, and the rest of the page is unaffected.

Source: https://extendiment.com/plugins/fileline/docs/1.x/folderline