Drupal 7 move files from public to private

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to save files to a private directory? Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 2 months ago. Active 1 year, 7 months ago. Viewed 6k times. Can anyone help me out to solve the issue?

Improve this question. Adrian Cid Almaguer Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Stefanos Petrakis Stefanos Petrakis 8, 2 2 gold badges 12 12 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. You signed out in another tab or window. Enable maintanance mode. Backup file field data. Truncate file field tables need to change storage settings.

Create the private path. Move the files and enable the! Restore the file field tables. Update the file paths. Active 7 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 1k times. But as there already exist nodes of the mentioned type I assume that my be the reason , the options of the node type's filed, where to set the destination is greyed out: Is there any way to change the destination for existing nodes? Improve this question.

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