On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Ashraf Amayreh<[email protected]> wrote: > I don't really understand why the files are not just stored relative to the > files folder rather than the site root. > > That way, changing the location of the files folder would only entail > changing the file path inside the administration. > > When retrieving file paths the function doing that could simply call > file_directory_path() and append the filepath from the database. Isn't this > how it should standardly be dealt with, or did I miss something?
Not to pick on you specifically, but if you'd read through the issue that ufuk linked to in the very first reply to this thread (http://drupal.org/node/366464) you'll find plenty of discussion about the complications that prevent this from being such a "simple" change. Can we please move this discussion over to the issue queue? andrew
