# Rake uploads:migrate\_to\_s3 runs forever

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**Tags:** s3\
**Created:** [April 8, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-uploads-migrate-to-s3-runs-forever/147245 "2020-04-08T10:45:11Z")\
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When I run that command, I get:

```plaintext
Migrating uploads to S3 for 'default'...
Uploading files to S3...
 - Listing local files
 => 23 files
 - Listing S3 files
. => 94 files
 - Syncing files to S3
.......................
Updating the URLs in the database...
Removing old optimized images...
Flagging all posts containing lightboxes for rebake...
4 posts were flagged for a rebake
4 posts still require rebaking and will be rebaked during regular job
Done!
Migrating uploads to S3 for 'default'...
Uploading files to S3...
 - Listing local files
 => 23 files
 - Listing S3 files
. => 94 files
 - Syncing files to S3
.......................
Updating the URLs in the database...
Removing old optimized images...
Flagging all posts containing lightboxes for rebake...
4 posts were flagged for a rebake
4 posts still require rebaking and will be rebaked during regular job
Done!
Migrating uploads to S3 for 'default'...
Uploading files to S3...
 - Listing local files
 => 23 files
 - Listing S3 files
. => 94 files
 - Syncing files to S3
.......................
Updating the URLs in the database...
Removing old optimized images...
Flagging all posts containing lightboxes for rebake...
4 posts were flagged for a rebake
4 posts still require rebaking and will be rebaked during regular job
Done!
Migrating uploads to S3 for 'default'...
Uploading files to S3...
 - Listing local files
 => 23 files
 - Listing S3 files
. => 94 files
 - Syncing files to S3
.......................

```

and it just keeps going.

Ultimately I hit ctrl-C and did `rake posts:rebake` which worked fine.

Then for kicks I tried the `rake uploads:migrate_to_s3` command again, which did exactly the same thing again as above (same output, same endless loop).

Not sure what’s going on, or if this is a problem or not, but wanted to report. Any thoughts?

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