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CollectionFS is a suite of Meteor packages that together provide a complete file management solution including uploading, downloading, storage, synchronization, manipulation, and copying. It supports several storage adapters for saving to the local filesystem, GridFS, or S3, and additional storage adapters can be created.

The CollectionFS package makes available two important global variables: FS.File and FS.Collection.

• An FS.File instance wraps a file and its data on the client or server. It is similar to the browser File object (and can be created from a File object), but it has additional properties and methods. Many of its methods are reactive when the instance is returned by a call to find or findOne.
• An FS.Collection provides a collection in which information about files can be stored. It is backed by an underlying normal Mongo.Collection instance. Most collection methods, such as find and insert are available on the FS.Collection instance. If you need to call other collection methods such as _ensureIndex, you can call them directly on the underlying Mongo.Collection instance available through myFSCollection.files.

A document from a FS.Collection is represented as a FS.File.

CollectionFS also provides an HTTP upload package that has the necessary mechanisms to upload files, track upload progress reactively, and pause and resume uploads.

Read more in the documentation.