Title: Flat media folder
Last modified: December 3, 2020

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# Flat media folder

 *  [juusui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juusui/)
 * (@juusui)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flat-media-folder/)
 * Is there an advantage/disadvantage to having a flat media folder instead of the
   standard uploads/year/month/file structure?
 * I recently took over a site that has media in a flat folder in the site root.
   We’re having problems but I’m just curious about thoughts on the above question.

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 *  [Archie Makuwa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/archie22is/)
 * (@archie22is)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flat-media-folder/#post-13740598)
 * I don’t think so. I just it makes things a lot easier. I would believe there 
   are no disadvantages.
 *  [Vlad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vladytimy/)
 * (@vladytimy)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flat-media-folder/#post-13740735)
 * Hi, [@juusui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juusui/)
    It depends on the
   site. For example, if my site doesn’t have new monthly media content, the folders
   are useless and I would want to have those few media files in a single place.
 * On the other hand if one has a lot of monthly new content, the montly folder 
   structure is suggested, making things easier to find, maybe easier to backup,
   easier to keept track of.
 * So it’s entirely up to the developer.
 * Hope this helps.
    Kind regards.
 *  Thread Starter [juusui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juusui/)
 * (@juusui)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flat-media-folder/#post-13743865)
 * Thanks for the responses. Does having 75,000 files in the media folder change
   anyone’s mind?
 *  [Vlad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vladytimy/)
 * (@vladytimy)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flat-media-folder/#post-13744013)
 * If that’s the case, I would choose _year/month structure_, because there comes
   a point where you might need to search a certain file manually in the directory,
   and also looks much better, but I can’t think of a performance problem if you
   have them in the same folder. I might be wrong, though, and having them in separate
   folders actually be better for performance too.
 *  Thread Starter [juusui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juusui/)
 * (@juusui)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/flat-media-folder/#post-13744126)
 * Thanks, Vlad.

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