title: Administrator overrides in Joomla 3
body: <p>I'm trying to override </p>
  
  <pre><code>/administrator/components/com_media/views/imageslist 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to make a more userful display, as the list loads very slow when there are a lot of large images in the folders. However, I'm unable to make the override work: 
  I have copied the files </p>
  
  <pre><code>/administrator/components/com_media/views/imageslist/tmpl/default.php and 
  /administrator/components/com_media/views/imageslist/tmpl/default_image.php 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to </p>
  
  <pre><code>/administrator/templates/isis/html/com_media/imageslist
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>isis is set up as the default admin template in the installation. When displaying com_media in administrator (in an iframe), the following url is used: </p>
  
  <pre><code>/administrator/index.php?option=com_media&amp;view=imagesList&amp;tmpl=component&amp;folder=
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it always loads using the files directly from com_media, and not from the template override. (I have noticed that the view says imagesList, while the folder name is imageslist).  It might just be a bug in joomla. Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>regards Jonas</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Tried to dig deeper in this. It seems that when JViewLegacy calls loadtemplate, the paths look like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Array ( 
  [0] =&gt; /home/XXX/www/administrator/components/com_media/views/imageslist/tmpl/ 
  [1] =&gt; /home/XXX/www/administrator/templates/isis/html/com_media/imageslist/ 
  [2] =&gt; /home/XXX/www/administrator/components/com_media/views/imageslist/tmpl/ )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so even thought the path to the override is in the paths, it is not hit as the first, and it is the files in the original component that is loaded instead of the overrides. However, I still don't know why this happens. Any help appreciated. </p>