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Jeffrey Tummers 5 posts 107 karma points

Mar 31, 2016 @ 14:03
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Move media directory to other drive
Hi all,

I'm looking into moving the ~/media folder to another drive on the same machine. The Umbraco version used is 7.4.2

What I've tried sofar:

1) Setting the umbracoMediaPath in the appSettings (docs), no longer used since 4.9

2) Modifying the /config/FileSystemProviders.config, but I can't figure out the correct values (source), my config currently looks like this:
```
<FileSystemProviders>
  <Provider alias="media" type="Umbraco.Core.IO.PhysicalFileSystem, Umbraco.Core">
    <Parameters>
      <add key="rootPath" value="e:\Media" />
      <add key="rootUrl" value="/media" />
    </Parameters>
  </Provider>   
</FileSystemProviders>
```
3) Created a virtual directory in IIS, now the images show up when browsing the site, but in the backoffice the Media section is empty

Could someone please tell me what it is I'm doing wrong? Any help is appreciated!
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Jeffrey Tummers 5 posts 107 karma points

Apr 01, 2016 @ 08:37
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As it appears I was overthinking the problem :(

The simplest solution for moving the media folder to another drive is:
1. Create the directory on the other drive and give your app pool user read/write rights there
2. Create a virtual directory in IIS with the name 'media' and point it to your just created directory
That's it, no need to change any config files!
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Simone Chiaretta 134 posts 541 karma points c-trib

Oct 21, 2016 @ 07:23
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I saw you found already a different solution, but I encountered the same problem and wanted to share my solution.

Basically, relative urls are stored in the database in the umbracoPath property of the media item, so if you change the rootUrl property it will only apply to newly uploaded files. Old files will still remain under the old path, so if you move them to the new path, nothing will work anymore.

Solution is:
1. change config
2. move old media files to new path
3. rename the relative url of all old media to the new url (in DB or using the MediaService
HTH Simone
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