By Anonymous (not verified) on

I have been using drupal for 3 years, starting from 5.x.

I'm frustrated about the upload module, or more precisely about drupal's file management. I thought CMS should take care of the uploaded files(images, videos, plain pdf files,etc) well, that's one major part of my 'content' that needs to be managed.

Say, if I have 100,000 uploaded files, the default core upload module put everything under _one_ directory, how can that scale? why can't I create sub-directories there, I would think this is a basic need.

I used IMCE to mitigate the issue, however IMCE has no permission control, which means the 'private' file management won't work, anyone can download all the files you uploaded via IMCE.

I tried to search all file-management related Drupal module, and failed to find one that is secure and capable to handle large number of uploaded files(various format). Again I wish that's supported by the core upload module, someday.

I'm forced to find an alternative CMS, which can scale and do permission control as far as uploaded files are concerned. If you know some other options, please let me know.

Thanks!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x, Drupal 7.x

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WorldFallz commented

This has been address with d7 where 'upload' was replaced by a core filefield module as well as multiple enhancement to the file handling api.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

that's great to know. Thanks for the pointer. I will install D7 now.
Filefiled's drupal page only has 5.x/6.x release to download, hope it will be ready for D7 at release, or has it been built into D7 core so there is no need for a separate filefield project for D7? from what you described, I think the answer is yes.

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WorldFallz commented

yep-- filefield is now part of core. The actual name of the core module is "file" iirc.