On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Nelson Chamberlain <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
When you installed Roller, you probably created a file called roller-custom.properties and put it somewhere in your Tomcat classpath, perhaps in the Tomcat install directory in a subdirectory named 'lib' or 'shared/classes' In that file you should set the 'uploads.dir. property to the full-path of the directory where you want Roller to store file uploads. In the uploads directory, Roller will create a subdirectory for each blog (named with the blog handle). You should be able to merge the various upload directories in each admin user's directory you now have in to one. You should also change set the search.index.dir, so that you don't have the same problem with the Roller search index. - Dave > -----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 >
