# Updating Metadata and Accessing Uploaded Files in Pinecone Assistant

**URL:** <https://community.pinecone.io/t/updating-metadata-and-accessing-uploaded-files-in-pinecone-assistant/7025>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** pinecone-assistant\
**Created:** [November 25, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/updating-metadata-and-accessing-uploaded-files-in-pinecone-assistant/7025 "2024-11-25T15:57:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![a.alexeev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/a.alexeev/32/3173_2.png) [@a.alexeev](https://community.pinecone.io/u/a.alexeev)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/updating-metadata-and-accessing-uploaded-files-in-pinecone-assistant/7025/1 "2024-11-25T15:57:25Z")

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Hello,

I'm encountering two issues with Pinecone Assistant:

1. **Updating Metadata for Uploaded Files:**
   Is there a way to update the metadata of files already uploaded to the assistant?  
   I couldn't find an API endpoint for this purpose.  
   Is metadata only settable during the initial upload?

2. **Accessing Uploaded Files:**
   I need to download existing files to re-upload them with updated metadata.  
   However, when using the `describe_file` endpoint, the `signed_url` field is always `null`, even though the file status is `Available`.  
   Here's an example response:

   ```json
   {
       "status": "Available",
       "id": "0ac3a545-8a76-482e-bc63-82663c07d504",
       "name": "Deposit for the rental property in Cyprus.txt",
       "size": 3328,
       "metadata": null,
       "updated_on": "2024-10-25T07:55:08.442787032Z",
       "created_on": "2024-10-25T07:54:48.209477418Z",
       "percent_done": 1.0,
       "signed_url": null
   }

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How can I retrieve the URLs for these uploaded files, or is there another method to access them?

Any guidance on these issues would be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![bear](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.pinecone.io/bear/32/1488_2.png) [@bear](https://community.pinecone.io/u/bear)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.pinecone.io/t/updating-metadata-and-accessing-uploaded-files-in-pinecone-assistant/7025/2 "2024-11-25T18:50:17Z")

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These are great questions, thank you for asking- you’re right that for both of them, there isn’t a direct capability today, but they are great feature requests (file updates and the ability to download uploaded files). I’ll update here if there’s any change.