diff --git a/apps/files/js/files.js b/apps/files/js/files.js
index c7f4c4ce080faa8712972955c3b9da747d9946c1..b36e46813dcf7c02364943302fd703194b12b905 100644
--- a/apps/files/js/files.js
+++ b/apps/files/js/files.js
@@ -199,7 +199,8 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 	$(document).bind('drop dragover', function (e) {
 			e.preventDefault(); // prevent browser from doing anything, if file isn't dropped in dropZone
 	});
-
+	 
+	if ( document.getElementById("data-upload-form") ) {
 	$(function() {
 		$('.file_upload_start').fileupload({
 			dropZone: $('#content'), // restrict dropZone to content div
@@ -413,7 +414,7 @@ $(document).ready(function() {
 			}
 		})
 	});
-
+	}
 	$.assocArraySize = function(obj) {
 		// http://stackoverflow.com/a/6700/11236
 		var size = 0, key;
diff --git a/apps/files/templates/index.php b/apps/files/templates/index.php
index aff484f0a7a1f88da346c4ef3f4749aa73be3b77..d49f2f4d5d3565cc0d327617acf3de30a7f58e0b 100644
--- a/apps/files/templates/index.php
+++ b/apps/files/templates/index.php
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 				</ul>
 			</div>
 			<div class="file_upload_wrapper svg">
-				<form data-upload-id='1' class="file_upload_form" action="<?php echo OCP\Util::linkTo('files', 'ajax/upload.php'); ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="file_upload_target_1">
+				<form data-upload-id='1' id="data-upload-form" class="file_upload_form" action="<?php echo OCP\Util::linkTo('files', 'ajax/upload.php'); ?>" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="file_upload_target_1">
 					<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="<?php echo $_['uploadMaxFilesize'] ?>" id="max_upload">
 					<input type="hidden" class="max_human_file_size" value="(max <?php echo $_['uploadMaxHumanFilesize']; ?>)">
 					<input type="hidden" name="dir" value="<?php echo $_['dir'] ?>" id="dir">