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title: Editing file metadata
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> 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).

Metadata provides additional information about files and their properties. For example, a PDF document named _DeliverNow\_Methodology.pdf_ can have the following metadata attributes defined: _File name_, _Title_, and _Description_. The file extension cannot be changed. The metadata consists of simple text values that can be specified for every file and that your website developers can utilize in various ways. Typically, the description of a file appears underneath or when hovering over the file on your website. However, this depends on the configuration of your website and you should discuss the importance and use of metadata on your website with your website developer.

You can edit metadata of files stored in media libraries, as page attachments, or as object metafiles.

To edit file metadata:

1. Navigate to the file location in the administration interface:
   - For [media library files](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/media-library-files.md), open the **Media libraries** application and locate the file. See [Editing media library files](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/media-library-files/editing-media-library-files.md).
   - For [page attachments](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/page-attachments/attaching-files-to-pages.md), open the **Pages** application and locate the page attachment. See [Editing page attachments.](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/page-attachments/editing-page-attachments.md)
2. Click the **Edit** () button in the **Actions** column.
3. If you edited an image file, an   **[Edit image](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/editing-images.md)**   dialog opens (to edit image file metadata, see [Viewing image properties](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/working-with-files/editing-images.md#viewing-image-properties)),\
   otherwise, an **Edit metadata**  dialog opens:

   ![Editing file metadata](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/editing-file-metadata/editing_file_metadata.png "Editing file metadata")

   - **File name** – the name of the file (without the trailing dot and extension). The current file name is always pre-filled when the dialog is opened.
   - **Title** – the title of the file (can differ from the actual file name).
   - **Description** – text describing the content of the file.
4. Click **Save & Close**.

The system saves the modified file metadata.