I am afraid it will not move the files. You have to do that yourself. There should be a script to do it. Please open a ticket in google code.
Massimo On Aug 16, 5:24 pm, Mothmonsterman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Massimo. Web2py rocks! > > I saw what you are saying in the docs as how to setup the model for > filesystem vs. db, but what I was wondering was how one would switch > after the app has already been deployed and files are sitting in / > uploads. Will updating the model move whats currently in uploads/ to > the newly defined 'myblob'?.. Or is it something that must be done > from the start either one way or the other?.. Or maybe its something > that could be done with a nice little bit of code?.. Thanks again. > > On Aug 16, 4:24 am, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > normally: > > > Field('name','upload'),... > > > to upload to db > > > Field('name','upload',uploadfield="myblob"),Field('myblob','blob',default=' > > '),... > > > or just > > > Field('name','upload',uploadfield="myblob"),... > > > as this is implicit: Field('myblob','blob',default='') > > > On Aug 15, 8:10 pm, Mothmonsterman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I read the docs and searched the posts to see if there was an easy way > > > to migrate file system uploads to database. I could not find > > > anything.. Please excuse me if I missed something obvious, but does > > > anyone know of a way to accomplish this in a batch process? Thanks. > > > > Patrick
