Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Help needed: StoreFilesInDatabaseP broken?

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5: Re: Help needed: StoreFilesInDatabaseP broken? (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 05/13/04 04:31 PM
But wouldn't this break all existing file-storage instances with their content?
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7: Re: Help needed: StoreFilesInDatabaseP broken? (response to 5)
Posted by Tom Ayles on 05/13/04 04:58 PM
I guess it would break all the instances that have written content to the DB instead of the file system. Overriding the parameter in this way is more of use as a preventative solution on a fresh install. Maybe it's possible to write a script to extract the file storage content from the DB and write it out to the file system (and then do whatever so the CR knows the content is stored outside the DB) to get the system back into the state you want.
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8: Re: Help needed: StoreFilesInDatabaseP broken? (response to 7)
Posted by Tracy Adams on 05/13/04 05:16 PM
If you would like to change the default parameter for NEW instances of
file-storage, you can do so from the apm:
(acs-admin/apm).  Select File Storage. Select Parameters. Edit
StoreFilesInDatabaseP.

This will set it up so that when new classes and communities are added, the
files will be stored in the file system for the corresponding file storages.
The rest of the package instances that were already there will stay as it was.