# Put files in a folder

Move the files of a record into its folders by dragging their cards, add new files straight into an open folder with Attach files, and take a file out again onto All files.

A file reaches a folder in two ways: an existing file is dragged onto the folder's card, and a new file is attached from inside the open folder. Either way it stays a file of the same record; only the place where the **Files** box shows it changes.

## Before you start {#before-you-start}

- The record needs at least one folder: [Create and rename a folder](create-and-rename-a-folder).
- Moving a file and adding one both need the right to edit the record, as for any change to its attachments.
- There is no menu or button to move a file: an existing file moves only by dragging its card.

## Move a file into a folder {#drag-in}

1. Open the record, here Silverbay Logistics Co. from **Contacts/Contacts**, and click the paperclip (**Attach files**). The **Files** box shows the folder cards first, then the files that are in no folder.
2. Drag a file card onto a folder card, for example meeting-minutes-0914.pdf onto **2026**. The folder card grows slightly while the file is over it.

![A loose file is dragged onto a folder card, here 2026, to file it there.](https://jaah.app/web/image/12584-6e7c9105/attachments-put-files-drop_target-en.png)

3. Release the mouse. The file leaves the root of the box and the number on the folder card goes up by one, here from 2 to 3.

A file sits in one folder at most. To move it from one folder to another, open its folder, drag it onto **All files**, then drag it from the root onto the other folder.

## Add new files straight into a folder {#attach-in}

1. Double-click the folder card, here **2025**. The box shows only that folder's files, under **All files** and the folder's name.
2. Click **Attach files** at the bottom of the box and pick the files on your computer. They are attached to the record and placed in the open folder at once, and the folder's number grows with them.

![Inside the open folder, Attach files adds the files you pick straight into it.](https://jaah.app/web/image/12586-a6b9ead9/attachments-put-files-attach_into_folder-en.png)

Use this button rather than dropping files from your computer onto the chatter: a dropped file always lands at the root of the box, even while a folder is open. On a phone, this button is the simplest way to put documents in a folder, since existing files move only by dragging.

## Take a file out of a folder {#drag-out}

1. Open the folder.
2. Drag the file onto **All files**. It goes back to the root of the box, outside any folder, and the folder's number goes down by one.

![A file dragged onto All files leaves the folder and returns to the root of the box.](https://jaah.app/web/image/12590-3b0feb79/attachments-put-files-take_out-en.png)

## FAQ {#faq}

### Does moving a file change anything for the record? {#same-record}

No. The file stays an attachment of the same record: the paperclip counts it whether it is in a folder or not, and **Download** and **Remove** work the same everywhere. [Follow a record with the chatter](/docs/essentials/follow-a-record-with-the-chatter) explains those buttons.

### I dropped a file onto the chatter, but it is not in the open folder. {#dropped-file}

Files dropped from your computer always land at the root. Click **All files**, find the file among the loose ones and drag it onto its folder. Next time, open the folder and use **Attach files** inside it.

### Can I put a file in a folder of another record? {#other-record}

No. A record's **Files** box lists only that record's folders, and a folder shows only files of its own record. To keep a document on two records, attach it to each of them.

### The file does not move when I drop it. {#no-move}

Drop it right on the folder card, which grows when the file is over it. If the record refuses the change, you do not have the right to edit it; ask someone who has.

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- Source: https://jaah.app/docs/attachments/put-files-in-a-folder
- Updated: 2026-10-27
- Version: Attachments and folders 19.0.1.0.0
- Verified: 2026-10-27