Directory navigation in the media library
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
This feature would be extremely useful in general, but is a requirement for the following common use case:
- A markdown collection has existing entries
- Images in the bodies of those files come from multiple directories
- The best the CMS can do currently is show one configured directory in the media library for the entire collection
- Images that are not sourced from the configured directory aren't visible
- Even if we made it so they were visible, the directories they point to are still inaccessible from the media library
**Describe the solution you'd like**
For sites of any complexity, Eg., large existing open source docs sites, which Open Authoring was created for, navigating directories in the media library is a necessity.
From https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms/issues/1046#issuecomment-395206762:
**Requirements**
- Allow multiple folders to be used
- Allow nested folders
- Allow users to create folders
**Proposed approach**
- Keep accepting a single media folder in the config, as we do currently
- Show a list of folders found within the media folder on the left side of the media library
- Use breadcrumbs to track position in the hierarchy
- Allow new folders to be created via an input after the last folder in the list with placeholder "new folder"
- Allow folders to be deleted via a button that shows on hover of each folder
- Folders must be empty to delete
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
No support.
**Additional context**
Replaces #1046.
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