Attachments to Gallery?

[Da GoTTi]

/me scratches head...

hell i dunno, ive never stored attachments on the local folders, its always been in the db. if i imported them over to a folder, would i get a problem? is it worth it?

*As far as I know* there shouldn't be any probelms with you moving them over into the file system as long as your server is not running in safe mode. I know vB has quite a few checks in there when changing the storage method, so I don't think you would even be able to move them if there was going to be some kind of a problem. It really is better to store them as files anyways since they don't take up space in your database then.

[Da GoTTi]

hmm i guess i could try it...

i have a very large attachment table on the site, so if i import them in, it might take a while....

now if that does happen, would u know if it will convert all the attachment information in threads also to point to the images in the folders?

does it dump the attachment DB also and just make the images in the folder?

few questions before i do something i might regret...but damn, gotta love SSH command to import the DB quickly

[ConqSoft]

If you have a large amount of attachments, then you should already be storing them on the file system for best performance.

The vBulletin process to go back/forth between the storage types works fine, and won't affect the way your threads/attachments look/work today.

[Da GoTTi]

is this alot?

Total Attachments 2,167
Disk Space Used 283.14 MB
Storage Type Attachments are currently being stored in the database
Average Attachment Filesize 133.8 KB
Total Downloads 106,312

[ConqSoft]

That's not a whole lot.

I have about 1.5gigs.

[Da GoTTi]

i just converted the db to file system..i guess i gotta get use to the difference if there is any.

this will increase the performance of the site? will users and myself notice the difference?

[Da GoTTi]

after i did this, the images imported fine, but the images were very large. no thumbnails..howcome?

[Da GoTTi]

nevermind, just did the maintenance stuff and its fixed it looks like.

[.Tim]

Anybody have something like this for the newest version of vbgallery and vbulletin 3.5?

[Zachariah]

No butt 1st time I seen it
should not be hard, but I am on bug patrol still.

[.Tim]

I'm sure I could get it to work but I'm too afraid I'd lose everything. If someone better at this than me could do it that'd be much appreciated.

[gustotelmy]

hmm this seems great! does this work with newer vbulletin and photopost pro?

[Chuck S]

This is not a photopost pro discussion sorry.