Organizing your Canva workspace is much easier when you know exactly which files haven’t been assigned a folder yet. With Canva’s updated Projects interface, this tutorial walks you through how to locate un-filed designs and images so you can get your account sorted more efficiently.
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Transcript
If you’ve been organizing your Canva account but aren’t sure if you’ve filed everything into folders, there’s a simple way to check. First, head to your Projects tab, where all your designs, images, and folders are stored.
If you’ve watched an earlier version of this tutorial, you’ll notice things look a little different now. As of October 2025, Canva is rolling out an updated Projects interface, and with it, the steps for finding unfiled items have changed slightly.
Previously, the easiest way to see your folders and any loose files was to use the Owner filter at the top of the Projects page. By setting that filter to your own account name, Canva would show only your folders and any designs or images that hadn’t yet been placed into a folder.
That filter is still available, but it no longer seems to behave the same way — even if you select your name, Canva now appears to show all of your created designs, not just the unfiled ones.
So here’s the new way to find your unfiled designs and images in the updated Projects layout:
First, go to your Projects tab, and then on the left-hand side, click the hamburger menu (that’s the three stacked lines) to expand the Projects sub-navigation. Then, click on Your projects.
That view should now display your top-level folders, along with any designs or images that haven’t yet been moved into one.
One great improvement with this update is that your folder structure now appears directly in the left-hand navigation. You can expand Your Projects and drill down into subfolders, making it much easier to navigate through your Canva workspace.
As Canva continues refining the Projects experience, this process might change again in the future. If it does, I’ll record an updated tutorial to walk you through the latest steps, but for now, this method will give you a clear picture of what’s still loose and what’s already been neatly filed away.
