diff --git a/seafile/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh b/seafile/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh
index dbeb8b776..7d2990f94 100644
--- a/seafile/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh
+++ b/seafile/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/99-run.sh
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ mkdir -p "$DATA_LOCATION"
 echo "... setting permissions"
 chown -R seafile:seafile "$DATA_LOCATION"
 
+echo "... copy media files"
+cp -rnf /opt/seafile/media/* "$DATA_LOCATION"/media
+rm -r /shared/media
+
 echo "... creating symlink"
 dirs=("conf" "logs" "media" "seafile-data" "seahub-data" "sqlite")
 for dir in "${dirs[@]}"
@@ -55,9 +59,6 @@ do
     ln -s "$DATA_LOCATION/$dir" /shared
 done
 
-echo "... copy media files"
-cp -rnf /opt/seafile/media/* "$DATA_LOCATION"/media
-
 echo "... correcting official script"
 sed -i "s|/shared|$DATA_LOCATION|g" /docker_entrypoint.sh
 sed -i "s|cp -r ./media /shared/|true|g" /home/seafile/*.sh