In the near future we may have a smarter mechanism for this.... On Saturday, 9 August 2014 15:46:49 UTC-5, Spokes wrote: > > Thanks, Massimo. I wasn't aware of that. Looks like I should start > changing certain fields to "uploadseparate = True" rather than the other > way around. > > However, as I mentioned, in the demo mentioned in this thread, when files > are deleted, the folders that used to contain them remain. Is this a > feature specific to this demo, or is this generally the case when using > "uploadseparate = True"? If it's the latter, is there some automatic way > for those folders to be deleted when their corresponding files are deleted? > > > > On Saturday, August 9, 2014 11:53:04 AM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> uploadseparate makes sure that if you have many uploads they are stored >> in different (sub)folders. This is important for speed because if you have >> more than 1000 files in a folder accessing the file system is a bottle >> neck. This does not affect the demo but it is good practice to use >> uploadseparate. It should have been the default option but it is not for >> backward compatibility. >> >> >> >> >> On Saturday, 9 August 2014 09:18:11 UTC-5, Spokes wrote: >>> >>> Thank you for the demo - very useful! It would be fantastic if there >>> were a web2py module or feature that implements this sort of functionality. >>> >>> However, I'm curious as to why it's necessary to use >>> "uploadseparate=True" for the upload fields in the db table. Is there a way >>> to get this to function with "uploadseparate=False" instead? If not, is >>> there a convenient, automatic way, when a file and its thumbnail are >>> deleted, to have their folders deleted as well? Thanks! >>> >>
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