Title: Default User Folder
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Default User Folder

 *  Resolved [uboost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uboost/)
 * (@uboost)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/)
 * Hey there,
 * I’m starting to play around with your plugin and I was wondering if is possible
   to have specific default folders for each user.
 * Example
 * When the user goes to the upload page he finds the folder selection dropdown 
   already pre populated with this folder and he can’t change that.
 * Thanks and great job.
 * uboost
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 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/#post-7718963)
 * Yes (not prepopulated, but yes). See the Tutorial on Dynamic Paths on the File
   Away Settings page, Tutorials tab, for instructions on how to point dynamically
   to a folder for a given user. If the folder hasn’t been created yet, you can 
   also put makedir=”true” in either your fileup or fileaway shortcode (whichever
   appears first on the page), or in both, and the directory will be created the
   first time that user loads the page.
 * You can also set the file upload to be fixed to a specific directory, so the 
   user will not even see the dropdown ([fileup fixedlocation=”true”]. If the [fileup]
   shortcode is used on the same page as a [fileaway directories=”true”] shortcode,
   you can fix the upload directory to the currently navigated file table directory,
   like so:
 * [fileup matchdrawer=”1″][fileaway directories=”true” drawerid=”1″]
 *  Thread Starter [uboost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uboost/)
 * (@uboost)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/#post-7718964)
 * I went over some of the tutorials and already set up dynamic patch having the
   user username as variable to name the folder. If I use the fixed location it 
   will consider the dynamic variable so will be fixed but each user has it’s own
   location?
 * Thanks,
 * uboost
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/#post-7718967)
 * That’s correct.
 * [fileup sub=”fa-username” fixedlocation=”true”]
 * will always and only upload to the user’s personal directory, with no directory
   dropdown on the page to worry about.
 *  Thread Starter [uboost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uboost/)
 * (@uboost)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/#post-7718982)
 * Using that shortcode doesn’t show any buttons. I added makedir=”true” and it 
   worked the way you said, the problem is I’m not seeing any files on the user 
   folders through FTP.
 * Using this shortcode:
    [fileup base=”5″ makedir=”true” sub=”fa-username” fixedlocation
   =”true” uploadlabel=”Upload” align=”left”]
 * The same result, no upload actually happening and also I can’t see anything being
   align left or even the button label as “Upload”.
 * Am I missing something?
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/#post-7718983)
 * What’s your server operating system?
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/#post-7718985)
 * If Windows/xampp, see here
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-problems-14?replies=4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-problems-14?replies=4)
 *  Thread Starter [uboost](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uboost/)
 * (@uboost)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/#post-7718988)
 * It’s linux.
 * Sorry my bad I didn’t notice but I was actually working on the code on the visual
   tab and it was auto adding <span>s all over the place.. embarrassing lol
 * all good now. Thanks for answering so fast
 *  Plugin Author [thomstark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomstark/)
 * (@thomstark)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-user-folder/#post-7718989)
 * Great!

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