Can you explain what 'private' file provides? Does this enable a file to be private to the node author? Or role based access control?

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cscsteve’s picture

cscsteve commented

It means the same as in the Upload module: file transfers are protected via Drupal... all access controls that Drupal provides are applied. Public means that it's handled by the webserver, so if the files are publically accessible, then if someone knows the URL they can get the file.

If you want to control the access to your files, ever, or want to place the file store somewhere other than the web tree, you'll need to choose private. The downside, is theres' more server resources used in private.

This is _not_ a method to have files that can be private to individual users.

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pomliane commented
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