What is a good way to create a hierarchical structure for a file repository?

[Steve Nothdurft]

I have a space to operate in, but do I create a new "file list" space?  Can file lists relate to other file lists?

[Stiltsoft Support]

Hi Steve,

I'm Elena from Stiltsoft. I wonder if you use Confluence Server/DC or Cloud. We developed a document management solution that could satisfy your needs. With its help, you can manage your documents and assets in the space storage, upload folders and documents with the automatic folder structure recreation, embed folders into pages with the navigation across space storage, and many more. 

Smart Attachments for Confluence is available for Confluence Server/DC only. If this is of any interest for you, please, see the app documentation or contact me.

Best regards.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Confluence does not have a hierarchical structure for files.  It is a wiki, not a document management system, and so the file handling functions are "enough for a wiki" rather than doing anything structured.  

You add files to a page, it will version them if you upload new copies, and that's mostly it.

To get a hierarchy, you'd need to look to doing it in the page hierarchy, treating each page as a single directory that can hold attachments and pages (which then may have their own attachments)

The file list macro (and other attachment/file related macros) reflect this, they haven't got a file management system to lean on, just attachments on pages, so that's what they show.