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title: "File Manager Package"
slug: "file-manager-package"
updated: 2025-10-21T03:03:47Z
published: 2025-10-21T03:03:47Z
canonical: "docs.processmaker.com/file-manager-package"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# File Manager Package

Use the File Manager package to preview, download, and share files during your Requests. The File Manager package has the following components after it is installed:

- **File Manager:** Manage files that have been added to your personal file manager:
  - **Manage files any user may access:** [Manage files that any user may access](/o/-LJ0aNaUl77b5HIzdH7-/s/09GreG9x1Y6qRGRu9MvR/participant/file-management/view-and-add-public-files).
  - **Manage files that have been shared with you:** [Manage files that other users have shared with you](/o/-LJ0aNaUl77b5HIzdH7-/s/09GreG9x1Y6qRGRu9MvR/participant/file-management/view-files-shared-with-you).
  - **Manage starred files:** [Manage files that you have deemed important by having starred them](/o/-LJ0aNaUl77b5HIzdH7-/s/09GreG9x1Y6qRGRu9MvR/participant/file-management/view-starred-files-important-to-you).
- **File Manager tab in Request summaries:** [Manage files](/o/-LJ0aNaUl77b5HIzdH7-/s/09GreG9x1Y6qRGRu9MvR/participant/file-management) uploaded to a Request in the **File Manager** tab. The **File Manager** tab replaces the **Files** tab in [Request summaries](/o/-LJ0aNaUl77b5HIzdH7-/s/09GreG9x1Y6qRGRu9MvR/participant/requests/request-details) that is in the ProcessMaker open-source edition. From the **File Manager** tab, view, download, and share files from a Request summary.
- **Preview files in Tasks:** Preview a file uploaded to a previous [Task](/o/-LJ0aNaUl77b5HIzdH7-/s/09GreG9x1Y6qRGRu9MvR/designer-modeler/model-your-process/task-elements/add-and-configure-task-elements) in that Request via a [File Upload](/o/-LJ0aNaUl77b5HIzdH7-/s/09GreG9x1Y6qRGRu9MvR/designer-screens/control-descriptions/file-upload-control-settings) control.