# Unable to upload profile picture

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-upload-profile-picture/26310
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2015年三月13日 21:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-upload-profile-picture/26310 "2015-03-13T21:26:22Z")
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### Author: ![dirkcuys](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dirkcuys/32/106643_2.png) [@dirkcuys](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dirkcuys)
#### Post date: [2015年三月17日 07:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-upload-profile-picture/26310/6 "2015-03-17T07:38:10Z")

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I didn’t realize, thought it was the preferred method! I assume I can turn of S3 uploads and newly uploaded files should work and old files will be served from S3? Any way I can pull down previously uploaded files to S3?

EDIT: ok - seems like it’s not that simple. I see images are being served at a local url which is then redirected to S3. In [this thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-file-and-image-uploads-to-s3/7229/42) I see mention of using `uploads:migrate_from_s3`, but it’s not working for me either. Is there an automated method to pull down the images from S3?

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