diff --git a/apps/files/admin.php b/apps/files/admin.php
index b0c2b35c6966ed59b70f8b605b6f4c2c63a6e53e..d05eb7267b7d5e8ee2431fc0619060296eeaff76 100644
--- a/apps/files/admin.php
+++ b/apps/files/admin.php
@@ -51,8 +51,10 @@ $allowZipDownload = intval(OCP\Config::getSystemValue('allowZipDownload', true))
 
 OCP\App::setActiveNavigationEntry( "files_administration" );
 
+$htaccessWritable=is_writable(OC::$SERVERROOT.'/.htaccess');
+
 $tmpl = new OCP\Template( 'files', 'admin' );
-$tmpl->assign( 'htaccessWorking', $htaccessWorking );
+$tmpl->assign( 'uploadChangable', $htaccessWorking and $htaccessWritable );
 $tmpl->assign( 'uploadMaxFilesize', $maxUploadFilesize);
 $tmpl->assign( 'maxPossibleUploadSize', OCP\Util::humanFileSize(PHP_INT_MAX));
 $tmpl->assign( 'allowZipDownload', $allowZipDownload);
diff --git a/apps/files/templates/admin.php b/apps/files/templates/admin.php
index c89070ce52ef8c11677a680429eeae9b1ecbd398..23021ec66477c7e6991c0bf8c50c7f07046a9a29 100644
--- a/apps/files/templates/admin.php
+++ b/apps/files/templates/admin.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <form name="filesForm" action='#' method='post'>
 	<fieldset class="personalblock">
 		<legend><strong><?php echo $l->t('File handling');?></strong></legend>
-		<?php if($_['htaccessWorking']):?>
+		<?php if($_['uploadChangable']):?>
 			<label for="maxUploadSize"><?php echo $l->t( 'Maximum upload size' ); ?> </label><input name='maxUploadSize' id="maxUploadSize" value='<?php echo $_['uploadMaxFilesize'] ?>'/>(<?php echo $l->t('max. possible: '); echo $_['maxPossibleUploadSize'] ?>)<br/>
 		<?php endif;?>
 		<input type="checkbox" name="allowZipDownload" id="allowZipDownload" value="1" title="<?php echo $l->t( 'Needed for multi-file and folder downloads.' ); ?>"<?php if ($_['allowZipDownload']) echo ' checked="checked"'; ?> /> <label for="allowZipDownload"><?php echo $l->t( 'Enable ZIP-download' ); ?></label> <br/>