Poor Directory Management: Highly Disorganized and Bad User Experience

[LauWoods]

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All uploaded attachments (including those from dialog uploads and knowledge base building) are stored under the directory /volumes/app/storage, and the filenames are hashed. Is there a way to separate them into different directories based on their paths? What code needs to be modified to achieve this? Ideally, each user should have their own dedicated directory.

[dosubot[bot]]

Yes, you can organize uploaded attachments into user-specific directories in Dify, but it requires code changes. The file upload API already has access to user_id and tenant_id during the upload process, and file storage is managed by classes like ToolFileManager and the storage backend abstraction (usually in extensions/ext_storage).

To implement user-specific directories, you need to modify the logic where the storage path is constructed—specifically, update the provider (such as LocalStorageProvider) to include the user_id in the file path when saving files. This means changing the static path (e.g., /volumes/app/storage) to something like /volumes/app/storage/{user_id}/... when files are uploaded. There is no built-in configuration flag for this, so you’ll need to update both the provider and any code that passes user context into file storage calls. The current design makes this practical, as user info is available at the right point in the upload flow source.

For reference, see how the file key is constructed and passed in the upload flow source. You’ll want to ensure that all downstream references to file paths are updated to match the new organizational scheme.

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