First off, this is a really great module. I'm thinking of using it for some pretty major file sharing, and maybe even working with some developers to extend it into amazon s3 for mass storage.

One issue for not dropping ftp in favor of this is that there is currently no way to download a whole directory (and the files under it) or to upload a whole directory unless it is a zip file. The latter is important for bulk uploading that we need to do. Any plans of possibility of adding this?

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JamieR commented

Hey Jason, thanks for the nice comments. It's stuff I'd love to add but don't have the time. It would require A LOT of work to get an automated mass upload type of feature. I'm not even sure how to start with that... a little less work would be to have something like the upload.module does - allowing attachments to all get uploaded to a temp directory quickly, then posting them all to the site. The mass upload I've only seen done by a huge company like shutterfly... and even then I believe you have to download and install something on the local machine as it's a limitation of web browsers.

Having a zipped directory auto expand is a possibility. As well as having a directory auto compressed and downloaded.

The short story is no plans soon. Limited by available time.
Thanks, Jamie.

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ntripcevich commented

Hi--
I wanted to second that request, at least for providing download capabilities for whole directories.
As you describe batch download can be implemented (as it is in our university webmail from Horde.org) by zipping the files and then auto-expanding.

In searching for this feature I read that a Zip extension was added to PHP5.2
http://devzone.zend.com/article/2105-Dynamically-Creating-Compressed-Zip...

sounds like a great tool to add to the Fileshare module. You'd probably want to only have batch-download as selectively available for certain directories so people don't pull down your whole site.

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JamieR commented

Something like this in in HEAD now... FYI.