# Can i change the default upload folder?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-default-upload-folder/61464
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 23, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-default-upload-folder/61464 "2017-04-23T15:48:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@laocoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/laocoi)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-default-upload-folder/61464/1 "2017-04-23T15:48:50Z")
I want to change the default upload folder to an another folder on VPS. Anyone know how to do that?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-default-upload-folder/61464/2 "2017-04-23T15:52:56Z")
See [this topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-a-how-to-guide-for-using-digialocean-block-storage-for-image-uploads/49535/16) that has info about editing app.yml to change that.
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### Author:  [@laocoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/laocoi)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-default-upload-folder/61464/3 "2017-04-23T15:54:25Z")
@pfaffman Thank you, awesome. This is what i need!
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2017, 7:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-default-upload-folder/61464/4 "2017-04-24T07:43:06Z")