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  <title>How to change location of liferay directory for file storage</title>
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  <subtitle>How to change location of liferay directory for file storage</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-04-06T05:08:46Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-06T05:08:46Z</dc:date>
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    <title>RE: How to change location of liferay directory for file storage</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Masud Ahamed</name>
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    <updated>2014-06-09T07:25:46Z</updated>
    <published>2014-06-09T07:25:46Z</published>
    <summary type="html">It did not work for me, unable to show the old documents,i.e, pdf/doc files. Please suggest</summary>
    <dc:creator>Masud Ahamed</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-06-09T07:25:46Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>RE: How to change location of liferay directory for file storage</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Gurumurthy Godlaveeti</name>
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    <updated>2011-11-28T14:57:01Z</updated>
    <published>2011-11-28T14:57:01Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Jonatan Oyola:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;portal-ext.properties&lt;br&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;
[b]resource.repositories.root=other_folder/liferay[/b]
auto.deploy.deploy.dir=${resource.repositories.root}/deploy
lucene.dir=${resource.repositories.root}/lucene/
jcr.jackrabbit.repository.root=${resource.repositories.root}/jackrabbit
dl.hook.file.system.root.dir=${resource.repositories.root}/document_library
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hi Oyola ,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;             Right now , I am also facing a bit of challenge with hot deployment process  , I changed &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;                            &lt;blockquote&gt;auto.deploy.dir=${user.home}/Desktop/liferay/deploy&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;          In my build.${user.home}.properties file and one more change just like as you said in portal-ext.properties file . &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;when I deploy themes /portlets / layouts from plugins , those are shifting into ${user.home}/Desktop/liferay/deploy as a jar's but from the ${user.home}/Desktop/liferay/deploy , The hot deployer is not deploying into tomcat , so can you explain more about this process of deploying once again .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thanks &amp;amp; Regards...&lt;br&gt;G.Gurumurthy&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</summary>
    <dc:creator>Gurumurthy Godlaveeti</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2011-11-28T14:57:01Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Re: [Liferay Forums][1. Installation / Deployment / Setup] How to change lo</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Ray Augé</name>
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    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=1243292</id>
    <updated>2008-08-31T06:25:46Z</updated>
    <published>2008-08-31T06:25:46Z</published>
    <summary type="html">Open/Create [tt]&amp;lt;portal&amp;gt;/WEB-INF/classes/portal-ext.properties[/tt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and add/modify the value of:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[tt]resource.repositories.root=${user.home}/liferay[/tt]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HTH!</summary>
    <dc:creator>Ray Augé</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-08-31T06:25:46Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>RE: How to change location of liferay directory for file storage</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Isabel M</name>
    </author>
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    <updated>2008-08-27T17:39:59Z</updated>
    <published>2008-08-27T17:39:59Z</published>
    <summary type="html">Jonatan,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for the quick response and perfect solution to what I needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With much appreciation,&lt;br /&gt;Isabel</summary>
    <dc:creator>Isabel M</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-08-27T17:39:59Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>RE: How to change location of liferay directory for file storage</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Jonatan Oyola</name>
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    <updated>2008-08-27T01:20:57Z</updated>
    <published>2008-08-27T01:20:57Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;portal-ext.properties&lt;br&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;
[b]resource.repositories.root=other_folder/liferay[/b]
auto.deploy.deploy.dir=${resource.repositories.root}/deploy
lucene.dir=${resource.repositories.root}/lucene/
jcr.jackrabbit.repository.root=${resource.repositories.root}/jackrabbit
dl.hook.file.system.root.dir=${resource.repositories.root}/document_library
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</summary>
    <dc:creator>Jonatan Oyola</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-08-27T01:20:57Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>How to change location of liferay directory for file storage</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Isabel M</name>
    </author>
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    <updated>2008-08-26T23:49:27Z</updated>
    <published>2008-08-26T23:49:27Z</published>
    <summary type="html">I need to change the location of &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;liferay&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; folder or directory that contains subfolders (&lt;em&gt;deploy&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;ehcache&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;jackrabbit&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;lucene&lt;/em&gt;). The folder by default &amp;#34;resides in home directory of the user ID under which Liferay is running&amp;#34;  (Liferay admin Guide). I need to move it to another drive like E:\ in Windows. Can someone help me with this?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks,&lt;br /&gt;Isabel</summary>
    <dc:creator>Isabel M</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2008-08-26T23:49:27Z</dc:date>
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