How to change the file upload directory on version 3.5?

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The option to change the upload folder for images is gone on version 3.5, any way to make it visible again or a workaround ?

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Changing the upload_path and upload_url_path options are pretty dangerous. They have the potential to break quite a bit of things, not to mention they have the potential of simply not working.
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There’s really no good reason to show upload_path or upload_url_path in the UI unless the values are other than the default (wp-content/uploads or ” for upload_path, and ” for upload_url_path). With that, most of a section disappears, leaving just year/month folder organization.

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  1. In addition to what Joseph suggested, you can also define the upload path in the wp-config.php file like this:

    define( 'UPLOADS', 'wp-content/'.'files' );

    If you’d like it outside the wp-content folder, specify path like this:

    define( 'UPLOADS', ''.'uploads' );

    For uploading to a folder like example.com/images, use this code:

    //Custom upload path
define( 'UPLOADS', ''.'images' );