How to change the attachments directory on JIRA

[prayuja]

I'm trying to create a symbolic link using this command:  mklink /J C:\path\to\symlink E:\path\to\file . But I'm getting an error as syntax incorrect.

[Ollie Guan]

Hi  @prayuja,

Hope the following articles will help you

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/managing-attachments-in-jira-applications-300811049.html

[Prashant Mali]

Hi @prayuja

Syntax  is: 

mklink /J {new link} {target link}

/j for junction and /d for link

basically {new link} is the new link you are going to create, and {target link} is the link's target which is existing directory.

[prayuja]

Hi @Ollie Guan,

Thanks for your response. The document says to move jira home directory. But I want to move attachment folder only.

[prayuja]

Hi @Prashant Mali,

I tried the same command but getting the error.

[Yogesh Mude]

HI @prayuja

Welcome to the community!

The default directory location is the subdirectorydata/attachments of the JIRA home directory.

To be able to change the default path you need to create a symbolic link.

Please see the choose custom attachment path section in the below article.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/configuring-file-attachments-861253987.html?_ga=2.136208177.1818070209.1529988185-338212943.1524643824

[prayuja]

Hi @Yogesh Mude,

How to change default attachment folder path.

[Yogesh Mude]

HI @prayuja

In Old Jira version, we can be able to changes the attachment from the admin section but now there is no way to change the default path from jira.

To change the path you need to use the Symbolic link as i have mentioned in an earlier comment but this can be done from the operating system, not in Jira.

[prayuja]

[Yogesh Mude]

I think you need to run the command as reverse.

First run the command on Test instance then try it out on production.

mklink /J C:\path\to\symlink E:\path\to\file

Ex : mklink /j <Original_path> <target_path>

Please make a note..It will impact on Jira performance while reading a file/attachement.

[Prashant Mali]

Try with "" for both link and check.

If you still facing same issue then restart your system and check. because it seems like some system issue.

[prayuja]

@Yogesh Mude

I tried both the way. Same issue