# Browse and inspect files

**All Files** is your file browser. It shows everything Curator has indexed for the
current storage source, in a layout that feels like Finder. From here you move through
folders, upload new files, manage what you have, and open the metadata Curator has
built for each file.

{/* SCREENSHOT: All Files screen with the folder grid on the left and the metadata inspector open on the right */}

## Navigate your files

Click a folder to open it. Use the path at the top to jump back up the tree. A toggle in
the top corner switches between **grid** view (large tiles, good for images) and **list**
view (compact rows, good for scanning names and dates).

Click a file once to select it. Click several files to select a batch. Selecting a file
opens the metadata inspector on the right.

## Add files

You have two ways to bring files into the current source.

- Drag files from Finder and drop them anywhere on the **All Files** screen.
- Click the **Upload** button above the sidebar and pick files in the dialog.

New files land in the current storage source and are picked up for processing. Whether
Curator processes them right away depends on your **Process on upload** setting. See
[Processing and jobs](/using/processing-jobs/).

## Manage a file

Right-click a file (or use the actions on a selected file) to:

- **Download** a copy to your Mac.
- **Move to Trash**, an in-app soft delete you can undo. See
  [Trash, Starred, and Recent](/using/trash-starred-recent/).
- Edit its attributes.

> [!NOTE]
> PLACEHOLDER: confirm the exact right-click menu items and their labels (Download,
> Move to Trash, Rename, Star, Edit attributes, and any others).

## The metadata inspector

Select a file to open the inspector. This panel holds what Curator knows about the
file, most of it written by AI during processing.

| Field | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| **AI description** | A short summary of what the file contains, written during processing. |
| **AI category** | The bucket Curator sorted the file into. |
| **AI file type** | What kind of document this is, judged from its content rather than its extension. |
| **Tags / attributes** | Keywords and properties Curator pulled from the file. You can edit these. |
| **Confidence** | How sure Curator is about the values it generated. |
| **Content hash** | A fingerprint of the file's content, used to detect duplicates and changes. |
| **Content length** | How much text Curator extracted. |

You can edit any field by hand. You can also regenerate the AI fields if the file
changed or the first pass was off. Regenerating runs the file back through processing.

## The storage meter

At the bottom of the screen, a storage meter shows how much space is used and how much
is free on the current source.