# Hugging face space persistence disk access

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hugging-face-space-persistence-disk-access/162890>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [July 13, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hugging-face-space-persistence-disk-access/162890 "2025-07-13T17:52:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![mailtoniru-eee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/mailtoniru-eee/32/50849_2.png) [@mailtoniru-eee](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/mailtoniru-eee)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hugging-face-space-persistence-disk-access/162890/1 "2025-07-13T17:52:50Z")

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Hi All -

I am new to hugging face space. We are deploying a RAG application for a demo and we are trying to host the metadata and index file in hugging face persistence disk. I have the metadata file and index file in my computer and need suggestion how to upload it into the persistence disk in hugging face space. Thanks!

Regards  
Niruban M

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hugging-face-space-persistence-disk-access/162890/2 "2025-07-13T23:36:16Z")

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Hmm… I can’t find perfect way…

> [@Accessing /data folder of persistent storage](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/accessing-data-folder-of-persistent-storage/46681):
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> Hi, I have a pretty dumb question. I set up persistent storage for one of my spaces and the docs said that this is stored on the “/data” folder. How do I access this folder? How can I see what’s in it and save the data locally via Python? Thanks, AJ

> [@Persistent storage who can access?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/persistent-storage-who-can-access/108027):
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> Hi I save some files to my Persistent storage , who can access to files ? Is safe or not from space users?
