Title: content uploads
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# content uploads

 *  [confuzed777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/confuzed777/)
 * (@confuzed777)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-uploads-1/)
 * Help, I apologize in advance for my lack of understanding here. While trying 
   to update my website I realized my wp-content/uploads/ were open for anyone to
   see and I also noticed that pictures that were not mine had been uploaded to 
   view here. Can anyone tell me.
    1. How do I remove these pictures? 2. How do 
   I make my content uploads secure so they can’t be viewed by everyone???
 * I know the bare minimum on this stuff so as simple as you can make it is greatly
   appreciated:)

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 *  [kapshaltist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapshaltist/)
 * (@kapshaltist)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-uploads-1/#post-2070066)
 * to remove those pictures, goto media, library in your dashboard.
    there you will
   gonna find those pictures. delete it.
 * and about visibility of uploads m not clear. so can you post it more detailly
 *  Thread Starter [confuzed777](https://wordpress.org/support/users/confuzed777/)
 * (@confuzed777)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-uploads-1/#post-2070285)
 * I got the pictures down, had to go into file permissions to get them off through
   filezilla.
 * Right now you don’t need a password to see my content uploads so that means everything
   I upload to my site can be viewed and downloaded by scrapers (i think that’s 
   what they are called). I want to figure out how I can change this so that my 
   wp-content/uploads are available to me and not the public. Someone suggested 
   [http://technicallyeasy.net/2009/03/preventing-directory-browsing-with-htaccess/](http://technicallyeasy.net/2009/03/preventing-directory-browsing-with-htaccess/)
   
   but I can’t figure out how to find my .htaccess?
 * Should I change my file permissions for my content uploads? Right now they are
   755.
 *  [kapshaltist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapshaltist/)
 * (@kapshaltist)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-uploads-1/#post-2070291)
 * .htaccess file is located in your root directory
 *  [kapshaltist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapshaltist/)
 * (@kapshaltist)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-uploads-1/#post-2070292)
 * else change the file permission to 700

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [kapshaltist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapshaltist/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-uploads-1/#post-2070292)
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