How to change Attachment storage path?
Asked by Edwin Kyalangalilwa:

This is the path displayed in **Confluence Administration \> Attachment Storage.**  
How do i change the path?  

![](http://i.imgur.com/BWkn0c5.png)


Answers:
author: Vincent Mutambuki { Mumo Systems }
body: From studying this link, [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Home+Directory)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Home+Directory>you could set the property "attachments.dir" in confluence.cfg.xml to point my attachment directory to wherever you want. After setting the config below and restart confluence, that should fix the issue.

\<property name="attachments.dir"\>/home/confluence-home/attachments/\</property\>


author: David O'Neill
body: To chime in, I moved the attachments from C drive to D drive as they were over 20GB. I saw an article from Atlassian that they don't recommend using the DB for large attachment storage. [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Attachment+Storage+Configuration)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Attachment+Storage+Configuration> additionally there was a link to usage case summarizing the hurtles and dilemmas of migrating into a DB, [](http://www.scandio.de/2013/05/confluence-attachment-migration-the-safe-way-2/)<http://www.scandio.de/2013/05/confluence-attachment-migration-the-safe-way-2/>   
my modification of the code looked like this.   
" \<property name="attachments.dir"\>D:\\Attachments\\Confluence\\attachments\</property\> "

This worked like a charm... now attachments are on RAID5 volume and performance is a bit better.


author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: ```
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```


author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: ```
and I just moved the confluence from onDemand.
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```


author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: I tried that and it didn't work. This is the configuration I pulled from the query showing that it's a file based attachments storage however i didn't see a path to the actual file system storage.

\<attachmentDataStore\>file.system.based.attachments.storage\</attachmentDataStore\>


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: My recommendation would be to save the attachments in database, to avoid the hassles of backing up both folders and DB. But if you want to continue with file system, you might want to try this: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Manually+change+attachment+data+storage+location)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Manually+change+attachment+data+storage+location>

Seems Confluence is having trouble finding the current attachment path and hence make sure you back up everything before making any changes.

comments: author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: ```
I tried that and it didn't work. This is the configuration I pulled from the query showing that it's a file based attachments storage however i didn't see a path to the actual file system storage.I just moved the confluence from onDemand.
```


author: Edwin Kyalangalilwa
body: Hi Jobin,

![](http://i.imgur.com/yWLj9W4.png)


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Oops, that doesn't look right. Do you have any attachments on the system? What happens when you click on 'Edit'?