To have an attachment, you can attachment a file but it is directly from my notebook when I hit browse. Is there a way to attach files in server or localhost? I have 10G of files and it would be stupid to upload from my notebook to the server thru attachment module in order it to show up!

I need restriction and therefore I can't put a direct link to the URL.

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greggles’s picture

greggles
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Location Denver, Colorado, USA
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Version: 4.6.0 » x.y.z
Category: task » feature

I believe that this is a feature request (hence the bump to cvs version) and that the request is for some behavior like:

I have lots of files already on my website. I would be nice if there were a way that I could get the location of the files stored in Drupal as attachments without using the attachment upload system.

Example use case:

I have a 300MB movie file already on my webserver.
I do not want to upload that file using Drupal's upload module.
I want to use a form to enter the URL of the file on my local server and then have Drupal reference that file in the same way that it does all uploaded files.

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LAsan commented
Version: x.y.z » 7.x-dev

Feature request, moving to cvs.

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drewish commented

marked #244673: Batch upload mode as a duplicate

dauphine13’s picture

dauphine13 commented
Version: 7.x-dev » 5.5

did this ever become a feature?

drewish’s picture

drewish commented
Version: 5.5 » 7.x-dev

restoring the version....

dauphine13, please be careful not to change the version of an issue.

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dauphine13 commented

Sorry about that. man. I wish I could wait for Drupal 7 to be able to use the technology, but I need a solution to upload large 2-3GB files now.. :(
My admin won't install some of the modules(APC cache) and and I have tried some of the partial solutions that exist. I love the technology! I basically created the site I need, just can't get anything to work. Seems like everyone just wants to attach smaller files and everything is geared towards images.

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webchick
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Location Vancouver 🇨🇦
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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Upload module has been removed from Drupal 7, and no features are being accepted into 6.x. Closing.