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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but their FAQ specifically says:

By default, your documents are stored inside the docker volume paperless_media. Docker manages this volume automatically for you.

It also says that documents are removed from the consumption directory, renamed, and put into a folder that you shouldn't modify.

And that's my problem with the project. I want to be able to keep my file name and organizational structure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Have a look here: [https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/blob/main/docker/compose/docker-compose.postgres.yml](paperless-ngx docker-compose.yml)

down under webserver: you change data:/usr/src/paperless/data to /path/to/where/you/wantorhave/your/files:/usr/src/paperless/data. Same for the media path and you're done. paperless now uses a folder on your machine instead of a volume. If you want to be clean you will then also remove the volume declaration at the bottom of the file.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

i think OP wants it to leave their current files alone. But Paperless doesn't work like that, it deletes the originals and arranges the files its own way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ah OK, misunderstood that

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