Help310:Components Media Manager Options

How to Access

Click Options button at top in Toolbar Media Manager or click Content → Media menu in the back-end of your Joomla! installation and click Options button.

Description

Media Manager Options configuration allows setting of parameters used globally for Media Manager. Control the file types allowed for uploading, MIME type check, MIME type blacklisting, and more options for Media Manager.

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Details

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• Legal Extensions (File Types). File types (extensions) users are allowed to upload, separated by a comma. Example: jpg,png,cvs...

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• Maximum Size (in MB): Maximum file size in MB allowed for uploading.

Changing the default 'path to files folder' to another folder than default 'images' may break your image links. The 'path to images' folder has to be the same or to a subfolder of 'path to files'.

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• Path to Files Folder. Path to file folder relative to the root of Joomla! installation.

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• Path to Images Folder. Path to images folder relative to the root of Joomla! installation.

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• Restrict Uploads: Restrict uploads to just images for Users with less than a Manager Permission if Fileinfo or MIME Magic isn't installed on server.

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• Check MIME Types. Use MIME Magic or Fileinfo to verify file types.

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• Legal Image Extensions (File Types). Image file types allowed for uploading, comma separated. Used to check for valid image headers.

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• Ignored Extensions. Ignored file types for MIME checking, comma separated.

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• Legal MIME Types. Legal MIME types for MIME checking, comma separated.

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• Illegal MIME Types. Comma separated list of not allowed MIME Types. Example list: text/html,application/javascript,application/x-httpd-php ...

Permissions

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Toolbar

At the top left you will see the toolbar:

The functions are:

• Save. Saves the configurations and stays in the current screen.

• Save & Close. Saves the configurations and closes the current screen.

• Cancel. Closes the current screen and returns to the previous screen without saving any modifications you may have made.

• Help. Opens this help screen.

Quick Tips

• Remember, these choices are applied globally.

Related Information

• Media Manager