# Org attach with all attachments in one flat folder **URL:** \ **Category:** Requests\ **Created:** [February 17, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-attach-with-all-attachments-in-one-flat-folder/3744 "2025-02-17T14:11:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![orgroamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/54ee81/32.png) [@orgroamer](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/orgroamer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-attach-with-all-attachments-in-one-flat-folder/3744/11 "2025-03-18T12:53:51Z")
I’ll explain the motivation behind this question more. What I want is to be able to reference other files the same way I reference Org-roam files (links, tags, more). Outlined in [this question](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-as-filesystem/3666/2) I asked before. My basic idea: for non-Org, non-text based files, have a separate Org metadata file for each, where the UUID in metadata file is the filename of non-Org file so they can be identified. And then you can create linking of all files the same way as Org-roam files, they can have tags, they can have text referring to them, and more. At that point, in theory, it also wouldn’t be necessary to have the files in a filesystem, but something more efficient (eg object storage). Because filesystems mainly give hierarchy, but this would be a completely non-hierarchical system. But I’m getting ahead of myself here. I thought a good first step would be to have all non-Org files in the same folder my Org files are in, give them sane titles, and then at some future date I could extract the titles, change the filenames to UUIDs, and create corresponding Org metadata files for them. I saw Org-attach, and thought it could be good fit. But I misunderstood how Org-attach works. It is better to use file links for this first step. Which I am now doing (in a flat folder). I don’t think Org-attach offers any additional functionality apart from having unique attachments per Org file (like you say) but I want to be able to share “attachments” across different Org files so that is actually what I don’t want. Yes the way Org-attach currently works is to handle IDs by using folder structure. But I do want to have them all in the same “universe”. This is what I misunderstood. Thank you for explaining, your explanation has really cleared it up for me. --- _[View the full topic](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-attach-with-all-attachments-in-one-flat-folder/3744)._