Attaching and Managing Files

Attachment Dialog

Clicking the Attach file or image link will open the attachment dialog, which will then give you two options for uploading files: Classic Uploader or Flash Uploader. Both ways of uploading are covered below.

The Classic Uploader allows you to select one file at a time and is supported in all supported browsers. The Classic Uploader is great to use if you need to add a file quickly.

The Flash Uploader allows you to upload multiple files at once, but is dependent on having Flash installed on the computer (download Flash).  Another useful feature of the Flash Uploaded is the progress bar that lets you see how much time is left for the upload.

Classic Uploader

To attach a file or image using the Classic Uploader, click the Browse button. A file explorer dialog will open, and you can then search your local computer for the file that you want to upload as follows:

Once you have found the file/image that you want to attach, select it and then click the Open button. This will then add it to the Classic uploader queue as follows:

The location of the file will appear in the File field. Then you can give the file a description in the Description field. This will show up next to the file once attached. If you need to upload more files then repeat the steps. If you run out of rows for adding files, click the  +  next to any of the file upload fields, and that will add another field as follows:

Once you have all of the files that you want to upload listed, click the Attach files button and the files will be listed on the page as follows. In this case it was an image so it automatically rendered as a Thumbnail in the Images section.

If you have added an image to the file queue that you do not want to upload select the - button in the upload dialog box as shown.

Flash Uploader

To use the Flash Uploader to upload files, click Attach file or image and then click the Flash Uploader Tab which will present you with the following screen and will automatically open a file explorer for you. If it doesn't open the file explorer for you, click the Select files... to launch the file explorer.

Navigate to the location of the file/image that you want to upload, select it, and then click Open.

This will load it up in the Flash Uploader. To add a description for the file, click the file name and a description box will appear as follows:

When you are ready to upload the file click the Attach files button. The upload progress of the file(s) will then be displayed:

The attachment will be added to the MindTouch page: