# How to tell if study is currently stored in local file system or object storage?
**URL:** https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798
**Category:** General
**Created:** [April 29, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798 "2025-04-29T03:41:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@ranasrule](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/ranasrule)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/1 "2025-04-29T03:41:01Z")
Greetings,
Is there any way to determine if study is currently stored in local file system or if its in object storage?
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### Author:  [@alainmazy](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/alainmazy)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/2 "2025-04-29T09:26:43Z")
Hi,
This is currently not possible.
Alain
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### Author:  [@ranasrule](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/ranasrule)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/3 "2025-04-29T12:22:28Z")
Is this something that can be added to the roadmap?
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### Author:  [@alainmazy](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/alainmazy)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/4 "2025-04-29T13:28:03Z")
No … because it is already on the roadmap 😉
```
- in Hybrid mode, add a Rest API method to know where the files are stored.
https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/the-question-about-migrating-to-object-storage/4841/4) ;-)
```
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### Author:  [@ranasrule](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/ranasrule)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/5 "2025-04-29T14:14:14Z")
😂 Perfect
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### Author:  [@ranasrule](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/ranasrule)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/6 "2025-07-03T15:38:47Z")
Hi Alain. Has this been implemented yet?
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### Author:  [@alainmazy](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/alainmazy)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/7 "2025-07-04T08:00:20Z")
Hi Rana,
> [@ranasrule](#):
>
> Hi Alain. Has this been implemented yet?
No ☹
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### Author:  [@ranasrule](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/ranasrule)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/8 "2025-07-11T17:04:06Z")
ok thanks for the update
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### Author:  [@ranasrule](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/ranasrule)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/9 "2026-04-28T12:04:23Z")
Hi Alain,
By any chance has this been implemented yet?
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### Author:  [@alainmazy](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/alainmazy)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2026, 7:05am UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/10 "2026-04-29T07:05:16Z")
> [@ranasrule](#):
>
> By any chance has this been implemented yet?
No luck 😉 no progress…
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### Author:  [@bcrickboom](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/u/bcrickboom)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.orthanc-server.org/t/how-to-tell-if-study-is-currently-stored-in-local-file-system-or-object-storage/5798/11 "2026-05-11T13:06:29Z")
Hi Rana,
Do you want to fund the dev of this feature?
If so, don’t hesitate to send a message to Alain or me.
Thanks in advance for your support to the open source project!
🙂
Regards,