How to make a upload folder private?

Uploads are stored in folders under wp-content/uploads and are saved with a different name. This makes it hard to find them, however, some hosts enable directory listing which allows people to browse your file and folder structure. To disable directory listing you can easily add the following to your main .htaccess file:

Options -Indexes

Of course there are other solutions to make the directory private. However this is different for every server. Please contact your hostingprovider for more information about this and test it good so you’re sure uploads are still saved.