Warning! Moving, renaming, or deleting a package item that is linked to a document creates broken links in your content. Because the Broken Links tool does not penetrate packages, it cannot detect when links to items within packages are broken. Therefore, if you plan to perform any of these actions on a package item, you should first remove any links to it from your content.

Folders

You can store package items at the root of a package, or you can create a folder structure in the package to organize the items. Folders in a package behave similarly to folders in the Library; they can be named, renamed, deleted, moved, and copied. When naming folders in a package, duplicate names and blank names, as well as certain reserved characters, are not permitted. Once you have created folders, you can move or copy items into the folders in the current package using cut/copy and paste or drag-and-drop.

Warning! Adding folders to a package increases the Library path to the files in those folders. If you choose to create folders in your packages, it is best to keep the folder names short and to create only a simple folder hierarchy. Long folder names and/or a complex folder structure with multiple levels can create problems if the paths to the package files exceed the maximum Windows file system length.

The Package Editor does not save empty folders. If you save a package that contains a folder with no content, the folder will not be there the next time you open the package.

Folders can also be added to a package from a file system. When you copy an existing folder from a local or network drive, the folder and its entire contents are copied to the package.

You can navigate the folders in a package by double-clicking the folder icon to drill down through the folder structure. The Location field at the top of the Package Editor tab displays the folder path. To move back through the folders, use the Up One Level icon to the right of the Location field until you reach the root of the package.

Changes to a package are not automatically saved. You can save a package as you are working with it or save it as prompted when you close the package.

 Multi-user Considerations

• Before you can perform this action, you must check out the document. After you save any changes, you should check in the document to make it available to other authors and add the changes to the Developer's version control system. Note that you check out and in the overall package document; you cannot check out/in individual package items.
   
  A new version of a package document is created upon check in whenever you add, delete, rename, or edit an item in the package. Only the overall package is versioned; the items themselves are not versioned. Therefore, if you decide to undo changes to a package by rolling back to an earlier version, you return ALL items in the package to that version.

To edit a package:

1. Open the package in the Package Editor.
    
2. Edit the package as necessary.
    
   You can add, move/copy, rename, delete, and/or edit the files and folders contained in the package.
    
3. Save and close the package.

Tip: To create a new folder in the Package Editor, on the File menu, point to New and select Folder. You can also right-click in a blank area in the Package Editor and choose New Folder from the context menu. A new folder icon appears in the Package Editor window with the folder name in edit mode. Type a name for the folder and press ENTER.

You can also click on the Package Editor toolbar to add a folder and all of its contents from your computer or network drive.