diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/deprecated_api.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/deprecated_api.py
index e67bc7be70..d9f461d5d0 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/deprecated_api.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/deprecated_api.py
@@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ class TrainerDeprecatedAPITillVer0_8(ABC):
                        " and this method will be removed in v0.8.0", DeprecationWarning)
         self.num_sanity_val_steps = nb
 
+    @property
+    def default_save_path(self):
+        """Back compatibility, will be removed in v0.8.0"""
+        rank_zero_warn("Attribute `default_save_path` has renamed to `default_root_dir` since v0.5.x"
+                       " and this method will be removed in v0.8.0", DeprecationWarning)
+        return self.default_root_dir
+
+    @default_save_path.setter
+    def default_save_path(self, path):
+        """Back compatibility, will be removed in v0.8.0"""
+        rank_zero_warn("Attribute `default_save_path` has renamed to `default_root_dir` since v0.5.x"
+                       " and this method will be removed in v0.8.0", DeprecationWarning)
+        self.default_root_dir = path
+
 
 class TrainerDeprecatedAPITillVer0_9(ABC):
 
diff --git a/tests/test_deprecated.py b/tests/test_deprecated.py
index fd373e9659..1e8dfa314d 100644
--- a/tests/test_deprecated.py
+++ b/tests/test_deprecated.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ def test_tbd_remove_in_v0_8_0_trainer():
         'max_nb_epochs': 'max_epochs',
         'min_nb_epochs': 'min_epochs',
         'nb_sanity_val_steps': 'num_sanity_val_steps',
+        'default_save_path': 'default_root_dir',
     }
     # skip 0 since it may be interested as False
     kwargs = {k: (i + 1) for i, k in enumerate(mapping_old_new)}