# Uploads to external storage

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 13, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploads-to-external-storage/370033 "2025-06-13T10:08:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 16, 2025, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploads-to-external-storage/370033/3 "2025-06-16T10:21:08Z")

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True! I tried it that way, and it worked, just keeping in mind that the mounted storage location must have the right permissions. `root:root` doesn’t work, but `_default_hostname:www-data` seems to work.

Another thing I noticed: uploads in topics, even with moving them to the new storage location, don’t work anymore and have to be re-uploaded. Other images/uploads (logos, headers etc) work fine.

Thanks!

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