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## Where are my files stored?
Everything, including all files, are stored in the database.
Everything, including all files, are stored in the database by
default.
Now that seems to put off some people coming to Docspell, so here are
some thoughts on why this is and why it may be not such a big deal. It
was a conscious decision and the option to hold all files in the file
system was considered, but not chosen in the end.
For the files there are alternatives: you can configure a S3 storage
and even using the filesystem directly is possible. I wouldn't
recommend the latter, especially not if networks are between the
nodes. The recommended default is using the database, as it was the
only way until 0.34.0, thus the others are not well battle tested.
Here are some thoughts on why the decision was made for using the
database only previous to 0.34.0.
First, it was clear that a database *is* required in order to support
the planned features. It is required to efficiently support a