Title: Improved description
Last modified: March 20, 2017

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# Improved description

 *  [iantresman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iantresman/)
 * (@iantresman)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improved-description/)
 * I would add the following information to the “[Add from Server](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-from-server/)”
   description page, as I think others may find it useful too:
 * 1. If you FTP images into the WordPress Upload directory, “Add from Server” will
   not import and duplicate the original images, but register them with your Media
   Library. WordPress will still generate images at different sizes, depending on
   the Media settings in WordPress Settings>Media page. If you don’t want WordPress
   to generate these extra images, set their size to 0.
 * 2. “Add from Server” will retain your directory structure (folders). Although
   the Media Library does not have the facility to “change” directories, you can
   use its Search Media Items box to show images in a specific directory by entering
   the folder name. For example, you have images in uploads/myfiles/folder1, just
   enter “folder1” to see the media in only that folder.
 * If you need to find duplicate images, use the “[Media Deduper](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-deduper/)”
   plugin.
 * If you need to prevent people from accessing all the new media attachment page,
   use the “[Attachment Pages Redirect](https://wordpress.org/plugins/attachment-pages-redirect/)”
   plugin.

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 * [directories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/directories/)
 * [ftp](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ftp/)
 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)
 * [media](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/media/)
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 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/improved-description/)
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