Title: Manually adding items to uploads folder Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Manually adding items to uploads folder * [hemmeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hemmeter/) * (@hemmeter) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-adding-items-to-uploads-folder/) * I just upgraded from WordPress 1.5.2 to 2.0.2. Everything went absolutely perfect( I am very impressed!) with the exception of 1 minor inconvenience. * I had a bunch of images in a wp-content\images folder. On 2.0.2, there is an upload folder. I am trying to get my old images to be recognized in the upload folder without having to upload them again. * With 2.0.2, I have a folder called wp-content\uploads that I am able to upload files to directly from a post. Using an FTP client, I moved a few of my files from the images folder to the upload folder. Those files are not recognized on the Write|Page screen. * How do you suggest getting my old images added so they are recognized on the Write|Page screen Upload section? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/) * (@petit) * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-adding-items-to-uploads-folder/#post-366788) * It will seem that an uploaded image is like a post, and registered in the database. My guess is that you have to upload the images again. * Or let them stay where they are or move them to a theme independent folder, e. g. `/pathtoblog/images. From there they could be added to a post using /