How to move multiple file to a different space
Asked by jo1420:

As a team we have a space where we keep our powerpoint presentations. To keep it clean we want to move older presentation to an sub-space (called archive). Since it's over 50 files, doing it 1 by 1 is takes too much time, but I can't seem to find a way to select multiple files and move them to a different space.  
The only thing I can think off is to download all files, create 2 new spaces, upload the files there and remove the old space


Answers:
author: Kristian Klima
body: Hi [@jo1420](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5577376) and welcome to the community.

Look at the following apps:

- Scroll Documents - allows you to properly version you Confluence content. It creates a virtual entity called document (over the entire space or a portion of that space, as you wish). The way it works is that once you're done with your content, you create a snapshot of the whole document (a version), and save it.

- Comala Publishing - syncs content from one space to another (one directional) - you can re-set your setup to sync the content to a new space as needed.

- Space Sync for Confluence - syncs content between multiple spaces (omnidirectional)

- Copy Page Tree. Simply copy any section of your space tree to another space - easily ad pre/suffixes.

comments: author: jo1420
body: Hi Kristian  

I am not looking for yet another third-party app   
I am looking for a way in Confluence itself to perform common file-managerment tasks like bulk file select and move.


author: Kristian Klima
body: Gonna repeat myself...

Confluence is not a file management system.

It's a collaborative content management system.


author: Marc - Devoteam
body: HI [@jo1420](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5577376)

Welcome to the community.

As mentioned by [@Kristian Klima](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5074962) and [@Vronik](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1303385) there are no ootb options for your requirement.

Also there are n customisations you can make in Cloud, except looking at solutions provided on the marketplace.

comments: author: jo1420
body: which is odd for a filemanagement system


author: Marc - Devoteam
body: Hi [@jo1420](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5577376)

If your documents are translatable to Confluence pages, handled by and edited in Confluence, then the answer is yes, as that is what it is for.

If your documents are lumps of data designed to be edited in other systems, then no, Confluence is probably a very poor choice. External files are handled as attachments in Confluence, with the page tree being the "folders".

The content of Confluence remains the prime focus of searching. Metadata and things like numeration or tagging mostly have to be done manually for attachments, and the attachments on a page are a simple flat versioned list.

Attachments are intended as support for the content of a page, not the focus of it, so the handling of them does not need to be that powerful.

Hence, if you're looking for a clever document storage system, I would not recommend Confluence


author: Kristian Klima
body: [@jo1420](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5577376)

Confluence is not a file management system.

It's a collaborative content management system.


author: Vronik
body: Hi

Look at this, maybe can help you

<https://streamline.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BAT/pages/491534/Bulk+Move+Delete>

Regards

comments: author: jo1420
body: Hi Vronik  

I am not looking for yet another third-party app   
I am looking for a way in Confluence itself to perform common file-managerment tasks like bulk file select and move.


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