diff --git a/grails-app/controllers/blocks/AnnexableController.groovy b/grails-app/controllers/blocks/AnnexableController.groovy
index a228907..a6a3c54 100644
--- a/grails-app/controllers/blocks/AnnexableController.groovy
+++ b/grails-app/controllers/blocks/AnnexableController.groovy
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import java.nio.file.Files
 
 class AnnexableController {
 
-    def annexableService
+    AnnexableService annexableService
 
     def find() {
         String namePart = params.remove('namePart')
diff --git a/grails-app/controllers/blocks/test/RepositoryController.groovy b/grails-app/controllers/blocks/test/RepositoryController.groovy
index c6e69d6..e086bdc 100644
--- a/grails-app/controllers/blocks/test/RepositoryController.groovy
+++ b/grails-app/controllers/blocks/test/RepositoryController.groovy
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package blocks.test
 
+import blocks.AnnexableService
 import grails.converters.JSON
 import blocks.Annex
 
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ import java.nio.file.Files
 
 class RepositoryController {
 
-    def annexableService
+    AnnexableService annexableService
 
     def index() {
         def buckets = annexableService.annexesGroupByBucket
diff --git a/grails-app/services/blocks/AnnexableService.groovy b/grails-app/services/blocks/AnnexableService.groovy
index 5c82b40..1891ab3 100644
--- a/grails-app/services/blocks/AnnexableService.groovy
+++ b/grails-app/services/blocks/AnnexableService.groovy
@@ -188,6 +188,13 @@ class AnnexableService {
         annex
     }
 
+    def add(Annex annex, boolean copyLocalFile) {
+        if (annex.file) {
+            annex = FileRepo.uploadFile(annex, [:], copyLocalFile)
+        }
+        return annex
+    }
+
     def add(def file, def domainObject) {
         if (!domainObject) {
             throw new EmptyDomainObjectException()
diff --git a/grailsw b/grailsw
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/blocks/FileRepo.groovy b/src/main/groovy/blocks/FileRepo.groovy
index 66c572f..31fb341 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/blocks/FileRepo.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/blocks/FileRepo.groovy
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import blocks.exceptions.UnavailableFileSystemException
 import java.nio.file.Files
 import java.nio.file.Path
 import java.nio.file.Paths
+import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption
 import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption
 
 /**
@@ -60,6 +61,10 @@ class FileRepo {
         trashDir = trashPath
     }
 
+    protected static def uploadFile(Annex annex, Map params=[:]) {
+        uploadFile(annex, params, false)
+    }
+
     /**
      *
      * @param annex Annex data to upload
@@ -67,7 +72,7 @@ class FileRepo {
      * If not present data will should exists in annex object
      * @return changed annex object
      */
-    protected static def uploadFile(Annex annex, Map params=[:]) {
+    protected static def uploadFile(Annex annex, Map params=[:], boolean copyFile) {
         if (!isInitialized()) {
             init()
         }
@@ -83,8 +88,15 @@ class FileRepo {
         params.annexId = params.annexId ?: annex.id
         params.file = params.file ?: annex.file
         //params.version = params.version ?: 0
-        annex.contentType = params.file.contentType
-        Long fileSize = saveFileToRepo(params)
+        if (!annex.contentType && params?.file?.contentType) {
+            annex.contentType = params.file.contentType
+        }
+        Long fileSize = 0
+        if (copyFile) {
+            fileSize = copyFileToRepo(params)
+        } else {
+            fileSize = saveFileToRepo(params)
+        }
         annex.length = fileSize
         annex
     }
@@ -159,6 +171,26 @@ class FileRepo {
             out.write(f.bytes, 0, f.bytes.length);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             log.error(e)
+            throw e
+        }
+        file.toFile().length()
+    }
+
+    private static Long copyFileToRepo(Map params) {
+        String diskFileName = "${params.annexId}" + VERSION_SEPARTOR + "${params.version}"
+        Path filePath = Paths.get(repoDir.toString(), params.bucket)
+        if (Files.notExists(filePath)) {
+            filePath = Files.createDirectory(filePath)
+        }
+        Path file = Paths.get(filePath.toString(), diskFileName)
+        def f = params.file
+        file = Files.createFile(file)
+
+        try {
+            Files.copy(f.toPath(), file, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            log.error(e)
+            throw e
         }
         file.toFile().length()
     }
diff --git a/src/main/groovy/blocks/traits/AnnexableControllerTrait.groovy b/src/main/groovy/blocks/traits/AnnexableControllerTrait.groovy
index d99df6a..cafe613 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/blocks/traits/AnnexableControllerTrait.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/blocks/traits/AnnexableControllerTrait.groovy
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import java.nio.file.Files
  */
 @Enhances(ControllerArtefactHandler.TYPE)
 trait AnnexableControllerTrait {
-    AnnexableService annexableService;
+    AnnexableService annexableService
     private static final log = LogFactory.getLog(this)
 
     @Action