@etj I guess that keeping the old files inside the previous location won't break GeoNode and Geoserer, right?

@giohappy
Keeping the old files where they are does not break anything, BUT:

• Assets logic manages files completely ONLY when they are within the assets/ dir: for instance, when an Asset object is removed, the related files are removed only if they are in the assets/ dir. If the files are outside such directory, it is assumed that they were created with other means wrt the uploading procedures, so they are outside the "normal" geonode flow.
• We may want to protect assets file, so that their directory is not exposed directory through NGINX;
• We may want to serve assets files via X-Accel-Redirect, and having them into a brand new assets/ directory can make the work much cleaner.