# Rake uploads:migrate\_from\_s3 fails

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-uploads-migrate-from-s3-fails/154171
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** s3
**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-uploads-migrate-from-s3-fails/154171 "2020-06-08T11:20:20Z")
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### Author: ![pnoeric](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pnoeric/32/177144_2.png) [@pnoeric](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnoeric)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-uploads-migrate-from-s3-fails/154171/2 "2020-06-08T11:42:04Z")

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Possible related issue? cc @mcdanlj

> [@S3 configuration expectations between global and site settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-configuration-expectations-between-global-and-site-settings/153766):
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> I have a discourse instances where, months after initially creating the instance, we enabled “S3” (in our case, digital ocean spaces) for a while, only via admin settings, and never with any DISCOURSE\_ config options in the app.yml file. We never migrated everything to S3, but the bulk of our images were written while we had it enabled. Now we want to migrate everything off “S3” for a variety of reasons not important here. (I know this sounds like a support post so far. But it’s not…) In a rec…

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