# Migrating uploads to s3 does not work with private bucket

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-uploads-to-s3-does-not-work-with-private-bucket/94591>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 13, 2018, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-uploads-to-s3-does-not-work-with-private-bucket/94591 "2018-08-13T10:41:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![schleifer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/schleifer/32/86416_2.png) [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-uploads-to-s3-does-not-work-with-private-bucket/94591/4 "2018-08-13T19:45:42Z")

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Yeah, an argument to specify the acl – so you could call `rake uploads:migrate_to_s3[private]` – would work nicely and could keep the default as `public-read`.

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