---
title: Managing files
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files.md
---

> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Xperience allows you to upload files (such as GIF, JPG, SWF, PDF, XLS, DOC, etc.) to the Xperience database or file system and manage them as any other content.

If you need to upload files to the Xperience database or file system, you need to distinguish between three types of files:

> **Info:** **Importing multiple files into Xperience at once**
>
> You can use two approaches to upload multiple files at once:
>
> - In the administration interface – using [page attachments](#page-attachments) and [media libraries](#media-libraries)
> - On the server file system – using [media libraries](#media-libraries)

## Page attachments

These files are added under a specific [page in the site content tree](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-pages.md) and their life cycle is also bound to the page (including workflow and versioning). You can have an unlimited number of files attached to a page.

For a detailed description and examples, see [Attaching files to pages](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/page-attachments/attaching-files-to-pages.md).

## Media libraries

We recommend the **Media libraries** application to store large amounts of files. You can use files in media libraries to create image galleries, video galleries or as a way of managing larger amounts of files of different types. The application and its typical usage is described in [Media libraries](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/media-library-files.md).

To upload multiple files at once, see [Inserting files into media libraries](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/media-library-files/inserting-files-into-media-libraries.md#uploading-multiple-files-into-media-libraries).

## Unmanaged files

Unmanaged files are files that are part of your web project and stored in the project's local file system. These files are not managed by Xperience.