# Per-user folders - Folderline 1.x documentation

> Give everyone their own folders, while administrators keep an overview.

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

On a site with several authors, one shared folder tree can get crowded. With per-user folders, each person sees and manages their own folders.

## Turning it on

Go to **Media → Folder Settings** and, under **Folderline Pro**, tick **Each person sees and manages only their own folders**. Click **Save Changes**.

![Per-user folders in the settings](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/989/screenshot-5-d411f7d6.png)

## How it works

- Every folder made while Folderline Pro is active belongs to the person who made it.
- Each person sees **their own folders** and **shared folders**: those made before Folderline Pro was active, and folders imported from other plugins.
- People can only rename, move or delete their own folders and the shared ones, and only put files (or posts) into those.
- Two people can each have a folder with the same name.
- **Administrators see everyone's folders**, with the owner's name next to other people's, and can manage them all. Untick **Administrators see everyone's folders** to give administrators only their own too.

## Files stay shared

Per-user folders organise the library; they don't hide files. Everyone who can see the Media Library still sees every file under **All files**, as in WordPress. **Unsorted** shows the files in nobody's folder.

## Turning it off

Untick the setting and everyone sees every folder again. Who owns which folder is kept, so turning it back on later restores everyone's own view. If Folderline Pro is deactivated while per-user folders are on, Folderline keeps them private: each person still sees only their own and the shared folders, and other people's folders (with the folders in them) stay out of sight and unchanged until Folderline Pro is back. Administrators see them all, as before, unless **Administrators see everyone's folders** was unticked.

Source: https://extendiment.com/plugins/folderline/docs/1.x/per-user-folders