Overview

The Media libraries module enables storing of various files, such as photos, sound, videos, package files, presentation files, etc. This means that not only media files, but also other types of files can be stored in the libraries.

Media library files are stored directly in the file system, organized in folders. The default location of all libraries of a particular site is ~/<sitename>/media. You can customize the location as described here. Media library belongs either to a specified group or is global for a specified site.

•	Support for storage of large amount of files (photo galleries)

•	Support for storage of large files (video files)

•	Each group of users can have any number of libraries

•	Files can be uploaded to the libraries externally, e.g. using FTP