Search & Move: Reorganize Media without losing track

Anyone managing large digital archives knows the problem well: hundreds of files to reorganize, scattered across different folders, not always contiguous. Moving them one by one using drag & drop quickly becomes impractical.

For these cases, the Media section provides the advanced Search & Move feature: navigate to the destination folder, right-click, Advanced → Search & Move, and a search interface opens covering the entire Media section.

The search can be refined by keyword and format type — image, archive, audio, document, folder, text, video — to quickly isolate only the required items, even when they are not in consecutive positions in the tree structure. The items found are selected using the checkboxes in the "Selection" column and appear in real time in the "Your selection" area; alternatively, you can use multiple selection with Ctrl (Cmd on Mac). Confirming with "Selection", the chosen assets are automatically moved to the destination folder.

This is the same principle that governs bulk tagging operations: from a folder, you can propagate tags to all child media with Apply tags to children, or completely replace existing tagging with Remove and apply tags to children.

For full details — including uploads, versioning, recommended formats for long-term preservation, and METS-ECOMiC export — the reference guide remains the Media section of the documentation.