====== File areas ======

**Areas > File Areas** in [[v4:config:overview|PBConfig]] lists your file areas, one row for each, with its number, **Name**, **File Location** (the folder on disk) and **Level** (the security level needed to use it).

{{ :v4:images:config-file-areas.png?900 |PBConfig File Areas screen}}
//Figure 1. File Areas, on a board with many areas.//

===== The toolbar =====

^ Button ^ What it does ^
| **Save** | Writes the list to disk. |
| **Edit Area...** | Opens the selected area. |
| **Insert Area** | Adds a new area. |
| **Delete Area** | Removes the selected area. |
| **Copy Area**, **Paste Area** | Duplicate an area, which is the quick way to make a similar one. |
| **Bulk Edit...** | Changes a setting on several areas at once. |
| **Check All**, **Check None** | Tick or clear the tick box beside every area. The ticked areas are the ones a bulk edit applies to. |

An area has a number, a name, a folder on disk, a listing and an access rule. The sample board installs one area, ''Example File Area'', with its folder under ''FILES''.

===== The listing =====

Each area has a ''FILES.BBS''-style listing: one entry for each file with a description. Only files that are in the listing and also exist on disk are shown to callers. This is true for FTP too: nothing else on your disk can be seen or named.

After adding files by hand, update the listing. The **FI** mode of [[v4:maint:pbutil|PBUtil]] rebuilds the index.

===== Who can see an area =====

A caller sees an area only if their security level and flags allow it. This also decides which folders appear over FTP, where each area is shown as "<number> - <name>".

===== Free areas =====

An area can be marked **free**. Files in a free area, and any file that matches a line in ''FREEFILE.CTL'', are never charged against a caller's limit or ratio. They still count as a download. See [[v4:files:accounting|Download rules]].

===== Uploads =====

The sample board has an upload folder, ''FILES\UPLOADS''.