Iris organises your files like the Joomla media manager, with one difference: it checks usage before touching anything.
Folders
The Folders button unfolds three actions:
- New folder, inside the open folder.
- Rename folder and Delete folder, for the open folder. Roots (images, Files) can be neither renamed nor deleted.
Before renaming or deleting, Iris looks at the whole content, subfolders included. If a single file is used on the site, it refuses and names the files involved: renaming or deleting the folder would break their links. From Iris 3.0.044, this lock is set as soon as the folder opens: Rename and Delete are greyed out, the reason is written under the buttons, with the Show which list. The refusal also applies on the server and in the Joomla media manager: a folder holding a used file cannot be deleted anywhere. It also refuses a folder managed by another extension (Droppics, Dropfiles). Otherwise it states the number of files and their size before confirming.
Files
A file's details panel offers Rename, Move, Copy, Download, Link (copies the address), Crop, resize (Joomla) (the Joomla image editor, opened in a window: Iris stays where it was) and Delete. Several ticked files are moved or deleted together.
The same actions are in the right-click menu, and F2 and Del rename or delete the focused thumbnail or folder (from Iris 3.0.210, see chapter 2).
Before renaming, moving or deleting a used file, Iris warns you: its address is about to change, or disappear. The description and the download counter follow the file.
Deletions are permanent. Back up the site before a big clean-up. From Iris 3.0.057, their confirmation says so: red border and title, the words Cannot be undone, a red Delete button, and the focus on Cancel, so that an absent-minded press of Enter destroys nothing. Iris windows close with Cancel, the cross at the top right, or Escape.
Some hosts refuse DELETE and PUT requests, the ones the Joomla media manager uses to delete, rename and move: the action fails with a 403 error. From Iris 3.0.210, Iris uses ordinary requests instead, protected by the Joomla token. Deleting, renaming, moving and copying therefore also work with these hosts, in the media library as well as in the thumbnail menu of the Joomla media manager.
Up to date for Iris 3.0.210. Features added after 3.0.045 show the version that brings them.