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# Folders

> Learn how to organize secrets with folders.

Infisical Folders enable users to organize secrets using custom structures dependent on the intended use case (also known as **path-based secret storage**).

It is great for organizing secrets around hierarchies with multiple services or types of secrets involved at large quantities.
Infisical Folders can be infinitely nested to mirror your application architecture – whether it's microservices, monorepos,
or any logical grouping that best suits your needs.

Consider the following structure for a microservice architecture:

```
| service1
|---- envars
|---- users
|-------- tokens1
|-------- tokens2
| service2
|---- envars
...
```

In this example, we store environment variables for each microservice under each respective `/envars` folder.
We also store user-specific secrets for micro-service 1 under `/service1/users`. With this folder structure in place, your applications only need to specify a path like `/microservice1/envars` to fetch secrets from there.
By extending this example, you can see how path-based secret storage provides a versatile approach to manage secrets for any architecture.

## Managing folders

To add a folder, press the downward chevron to the right of the **Add Secret** button; then press on the **Add Folder** button.

<Info>
  Folder names can only contain alphabets, numbers, and dashes
</Info>

<img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/infisical/images/platform/folder/folders-add.png" alt="add folder" />

To delete a folder, hover over it and press the **X** button that appears on the right side.

<img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/infisical/images/platform/folder/folders-delete.png" alt="delete folder" />

### Comparing folders

It's possible to compare the contents of folders across environments in the **Secrets Overview** page.
When you click on a folder, the table will display the items within it across environments.

In the image below, you can see that the **Development** environment is the only one that contains items
in the `/users` folder, being other folders `/user-a`, `/user-b`, ... `/user-f`.

<img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/infisical/images/platform/folder/folders-secrets-overview.png" alt="comparing folders" />

### Replicating Folder Contents

If you want to copy secrets or folders from one path to another, you can utilize the **Replicate Secrets** functionality located in the **Add Secret** dropdown.

<img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/infisical/images/platform/folder/replicate-secrets.png" alt="replicate secrets" />

<img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/infisical/images/platform/folder/replicate-secrets-modal.png" alt="replicate secrets modal" />

First, select the **Source Environment** and the **Source Root Path** you want to copy secrets *from*. In the example provided, we select `/dev-folder` as the source root path from the Development environment. This means any secrets within `/dev-folder` from Development will be replicated. By default, these secrets are copied into the *currently active* folder/path in your target environment (e.g., the root folder of your Staging environment in this scenario).

As a final step, you can select the specific secrets you wish to copy and then click **Replicate Secrets**.

<img src="https://mintlify.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/infisical/images/platform/folder/replicate-secrets-result.png" alt="replicate secrets modal" />

The result shows two secrets successfully copied from the `/dev-folder` in the Development environment into the root folder of the Staging environment.

<Info>
  If you do not select a **Source Root Path**, the replication will consider the contents of the *entire root* of the **Source Environment** (e.g., the Development environment). In this example that would mean copying the `/dev-folder` itself rather than just its contents.
</Info>