Title: Move older uploads
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Move older uploads

 *  Resolved [Kai Spriestersbach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seokai/)
 * (@seokai)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-older-uploads/)
 * Hey,
 * I would like to move existing uploads to the new folder structure – is that possible?
   
   We have more than 6.700 Images uploaded on [our site](http://www.chinahandys.net).
   With all retina sizes there are 150.000 files in wp-content/uploads which is 
   bad for the unix fs 🙁
 * Thanks a lot
 * Kai
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-upload-dir/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-upload-dir/)

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 *  Plugin Author [ulfben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulfben/)
 * (@ulfben)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-older-uploads/#post-6909664)
 * No. Custom Upload Dir will never touch a file on disk. It will never delete, 
   move or rename anything that already exists. That’s a _huge_ can-of-worms to 
   open, not least because it would invalidate all previous links to the file.

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 * Last reply from: [ulfben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulfben/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-older-uploads/#post-6909664)
 * Status: resolved