Title: Restoring an excluded folder
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Restoring an excluded folder

 *  Resolved [srishtim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srishtim/)
 * (@srishtim)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-an-excluded-folder/)
 * If I exclude a folder containing some heavy size files, when backing up, do the
   links to these files in the post get disabled?
    Also, if I manually copy the 
   folder to the new installation server, will the complete restoration happen?
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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-an-excluded-folder/#post-6168794)
 * Hi Srishtim,
 * The links will not be disabled, however until you move the files that were excluded
   up-to the new location then your items will not show. For example if you excluded
   the wp-content\uploads directory with all your images, then after you install
   your site it will not have any images until you manually move them over.
 * Hope that helps!
 *  Thread Starter [srishtim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srishtim/)
 * (@srishtim)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-an-excluded-folder/#post-6168797)
 * Thanks – will try. This may help for large sites, having large pdfs linked
 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/restoring-an-excluded-folder/#post-6168885)
 * Yes, it is designed to help budget hosts with timeout limits for larger files…

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