[pmwiki-users] Bulk uploads

[Ben Wilson]

On 5/15/06, Tegan Dowling <tmdowling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/06, Hans <design at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
> > Monday, May 15, 2006, 9:23:06 AM, kirpi wrote:
> > > The 'upload' feature works really nice.
> > > İn case İ have to load a lot of images, though, can İ safely use ftp
> > > instead, and put them into the same upload/group folder?
> > > İn other words, does the 'uploads' command also update some other
> > > (ındex- lıke) file, or just transfers the images?
> >
> > you can safely upload files with FTP into the relevant uploads/Group/
> > folder and link to them with normal Attach:file.ext markup
>
> If you manually create a subdirectory of uploads for a group, check
> the its permissions on the server - I think, chmod=777? - set to the
> same as the ones the wiki creates, anyway.
>
> Right?

You are correct, sir. You will also want to set files to 666 so they
may be overwritten by a file upload. This is if you want to be able to
individually upload revisions of the file later.

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Ben Wilson
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