diff --git a/conf/settings.xml.template b/conf/settings.xml.template
index 52fee25d2..0009908b0 100644
--- a/conf/settings.xml.template
+++ b/conf/settings.xml.template
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
       enableLanguageSelector = "true"
       stopWordsFile = ""
       sortUsersInList = ""
-      enableDropUpload = "false"
+      enableDropUpload = "true"
       enableRecursiveCount = "false"
       maxRecursiveCount = "0"
       enableThemeSelector = "true"