Thank you so much! This is a huge help and a great relief to have found my graphics files. I actually found them in the home folder of several different users, apparently once each time a different admin logged on the server.
If you don't mind answering another newbie question, where can I find the uploads.dir setting? I'd like to set it to my home folder since I expect to be the Roller admin for the forseeable future. Thanks again for your help Nelson -----Original Message----- From: Dave [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 8:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Just Lost All My Graphics On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Nelson Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow! I just lost all of the graphics in my Roller 4.0.1 blog site. We have > about 15 blogs on our site and all of them suddenly have zero graphics. When > I go to File Uploads in any of the blogs, the images are gone, as well as any > directories that held additional graphics. > > Any guesses what happened? Any easy actions, like rebuild indexes, that will > bring the graphics back? Or do I have to add the images back one by one? Roller 4 uses only the file-system for upload storage and does not store any information in the database. So, if the files are gone in Roller then either 1) Roller has the wrong directory set as the uploads directory or 2) somebody deleted the files from disk. If you explain more about your Roller setup maybe we can figure out what went wrong. What app server are you using? What directory were you using to store file uploads? If you did not set the 'uploads.dir' propoerty, then Roller will use the default value below: uploads.dir=${user.home}/roller_data/uploads That means that the files are stored in the home directory of the user who runs the Roller process. Perhaps somebody deleted that directory? - Dave > > Thanks for any advice on this issue > > Nelson Chamberlain
