Title: Great
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# Great

 *  [dp557](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dp557/)
 * (@dp557)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-2019/)
 * Had to abandon WordPress Download Manager in favor of this plugin. I have come
   to the conclusion that this is the best plugin to use when dealing with very 
   large file systems.
 * Filebase has the best back-end file management around, allowing you to manually
   copy/paste an existing file/folder system into the filebase directory on the 
   server. Hit the file sync button, and you’re in business. Similarly, large-scale
   reorganization can be done without opening WordPress. Just open the filebase 
   folder on the server, and move things around. Although moving folders will break
   any shortcodes you have pointed to those folders.
 * The templating system is great as well. Took me 5 seconds to add a “date created”
   timestamp to every single filebase file link on my site.
 * This plugin fails–as most do–when it comes to visually displaying your file hierarchy
   in the WordPress admin dashboard. I was hoping to find a list of top level folders
   which I could then expand and explore individually, but instead, the Filebase
   file list (in the Filebase admin dashboard) is just that; a list of every file
   you have uploaded. No folders, no organization. The category list does provide
   some organization, but it doesn’t nest folders, it just lists every single folder
   it finds in the Filebase directory. I would be so lost if I didn’t have the ability
   to make changes to the file structure through Finder/Windows Explorer.

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