# Organizing your video library

> Create folders, sort and search your videos, move or delete several at once, and know what each video card's menu does.

Source: https://knowledge.estage.com/video/library/
Part of the ESTAGE knowledge base (https://knowledge.estage.com). Full corpus: https://knowledge.estage.com/llms-full.txt

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Your library is a grid of **folders** and **videos**. Folders can hold videos and other folders,
so you can group by course, client or campaign however deep you like. Everything here happens
in **All videos** and the **Folders** tree in the left sidebar.

## Creating and managing folders

1. Open the place the new folder should go — **All videos** or another folder.
2. Click **New folder** (top right), or the **+** next to **Folders** in the sidebar.
3. Type a name and save.

Each folder card shows how many videos it holds. Its **⋯** menu offers:

| Action | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Share** | Give other ESTAGE users access to the folder — see [Teams and shared folders](/video/sharing/) |
| **Rename** | Change the folder's name |
| **Move to folder** | Put the folder, with everything in it, inside another folder |
| **Delete** | Remove the folder and its sub-folders |

Drag folder cards to change their order.

:::caution
**Deleting a folder can't be undone.** It removes the folder and every folder inside it. Move or
delete the videos you care about first.
:::

## Sorting videos

The sort menu above the video grid offers **Custom order**, **Name (A–Z)**, **Name (Z–A)**,
**Newest first** and **Oldest first**. Name sorting reads numbers naturally, so "Lesson 2" comes
before "Lesson 10".

In **Custom order** you can drag video cards to arrange them; the order is saved for the folder.
The other sorts are just a view and don't change the saved order. Your sort choice is remembered
in your browser.

## Finding a video

Click **Search videos and folders…** in the top bar and start typing. Results match the
**beginning** of a video's title or a folder's name, across your whole library.

## The video card menu

Every video card's **⋯** menu has:

| Action | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Copy Player Link** | Copies the video's link on the ESTAGE player |
| **Move Video To Folder** | Moves it to another folder |
| **Rename Video** | Changes its title |
| **Video Settings** | Opens its settings page (also: click the thumbnail) |
| **Download Video** | Downloads an MP4 copy — shown once processing is finished |
| **Delete Video** | Deletes it permanently |

On a folder shared with you as **Viewer**, the menu only offers **Copy Player Link**, **Open
Video** and **Download Video**.

## Working with several videos at once

1. Hover a video and tick the checkbox in its top-left corner.
2. While a selection is active, clicking a thumbnail toggles it. **Shift**-click selects a range.
   **Select all** picks every video in the folder.
3. Open **Actions (N)** and choose **Move to folder** or **Delete**.
4. **Cancel** clears the selection.

If some videos can't be moved, the rest move and the failed ones stay selected so you can try
again.

## Things worth knowing

- **Deleting a video removes its files permanently** — from your library and from every page,
  lesson or post that plays it. You're asked to confirm, but there is no undo.
- **Videos that are still processing** can't be selected for bulk actions, and clicking their
  thumbnail does nothing. Open one with **Video Settings** in its card menu.
- **Moving a video doesn't change its link.** Pages that play it keep working.