migrateFrom & database not looked up in data dir, need absolute paths
Author: madduckCreated Sep 18, 2026Updated Sep 18, 2026
I am on Docker and followed the migration guide to v2, but the old database is not found.
# config.yaml:
server:
database:
path: "filebrowser.sqlite"
migrateFrom: "database.db.old"
# […]
# compose.yaml
services:
filebrowser:
image: gtstef/filebrowser:beta
volumes:
- ./data:/home/filebrowser/data
# […]root@filebrowser:/srv/docker# ls -l data
total 46
-rw-r--r-- 1 filebrowser nogroup 1304 Sep 18 08:19 config.yaml
-rw-r--r-- 1 filebrowser nogroup 262144 Sep 18 08:11 database.db.old
drwxrwxr-x 9 filebrowser nogroup 9 Sep 18 08:22 tmpI need to set absolute paths for both migrateFrom and database to make it work (prepend /home/filebrowser/data/). At least when it comes to database, this is a regression.
Source: gtsteffaniak/filebrowser