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Attachments

The library of every file you have shared into a chat — finding one again, reusing it, and seeing which conversations depend on it.

Every file you attach to a message is kept in Library → Attachments. The point is reuse: a screenshot you shared three conversations ago is findable without remembering which conversation it was.

9xchat Attachments Library split into Images and Documents, with search, sort, and view controls in the header
Images and documents are counted separately, because you are usually looking for one or the other.

An attachment is not Knowledge. An attachment is a file that was part of a conversation. Knowledge is a folder the assistant searches across conversations. If you want a document consulted repeatedly, it belongs in a collection.

Finding one

  • Search matches file names.
  • Images and Documents filter by type.
  • Starred only narrows to what you have marked.
  • Sort by orders by Updated At, Created At, or name in either direction.
  • List view and Grid view switch layout. Grid previews images, which is faster for finding a picture; list shows more per screen, which is faster for finding a filename.

Star anything you reach for repeatedly — starring is the only ordering that survives a library too big to scan.

Using one again

Use Attachment adds the file to the chat you currently have open, without re-uploading it or hunting down the original.

Seeing what depends on a file

View Sources lists the threads that reference this attachment, so you can tell whether a file is still load-bearing before you remove it. A file used in no conversation says so plainly.

This matters because attachments outlive the conversations that introduced them, and a file that looks stray in the library may still be the thing a thread's answers were based on.

Removing them

Delete removes an attachment permanently, and select several to remove them together. References are checked first, so deletion is a decision you make knowing what still points at the file.

Deleting an attachment cannot be undone, and it does not remove the file from the conversations that already used it — those messages keep what was said about it, without the file behind it.

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