David,

I am having a horrible problem with importing from Downloads II. I have around 21K files in downloads II, but when I run the importer it actually creates more than 247K files!!

I have attached some screenshots to show you the numbers. I have also verified on the console that the directory does indeed have 247K files.

Thanks,

-Jason

EDIT: Nvm, deinstalled it, was a bit too buggy..

I installed your mod and I have 2 problems the first one is the download button is not showing up its set up in the navigation settings tab.

Second up if I access the page directly I get an error message saying I don't have access to this page and I'm logged in as the administrator

Deleted reinstall and over written all files back to my server and same problem

You have to edit all the settings first...

i tried that too can you tell me exactly what settings i need to edit to fix this

In the ACP left pane there is a section called Manage Modules. Check the permissions set in there.

Dylan

What vB version are you running? Greater or less than 4.2?

Dylan

Same problem, running VB 4.2.0 PL3. Dont even know how to make the tab show up. BUt im a newb so take that for what its worth. :eek:

Whoooa... I disabled it and then re-enabled it and now its working!

I hava a same problem (before about 300 after more than 800)

In addition, the research takes only the title or the author, and not within the search parameters the DESCRIPTION file, which can be much more useful for filtering files (especially when there are many)
In this case it is much more usual DOWNLOADS II

It would also be very pleased to be able to include the tags to the files

In the supplied files, you have an UPLOAD folder, then an XML folder. I am confused on where the XML folder goes. I have version 4.2 which should only require the vb4 XML file I am assuming. Do I upload that as a product as well?

Thank you for your time and support!

Upload folder goes on the server via FTP
then
XML goes vBulletin Admin --> Plugins & Products --> Manage Products --> Add/Import Product

Thank you for your help. I am learning and took a guess, it was correct!! Woo hoo! Now only if I can learn how to define the path to the downloads.

Any help with that?

We have a dedicated so the path is

home/servername/downloads

Then I see:
Error:
You did not enter a valid value for this setting.

I am a novice, please advise

I just got this while uploading

Any chance of getting some help on this issue. Thanks in advance!

Youll need to chmod that folder. http://php.about.com/od/phpbasics/ht/chmod.htm

That is a server issue, please contact your host.

Please post on our forums for priority support, vBulletin.org does not offer us proper tools and notifications to quickly resolve issues.

It's also a bit rude to complain / bump for free support for a free mod ;)


Fillip

I appreciate the response for the other answers. As far as suggesting is it a "bit rude" to complain/bump the thread for "free" support for a "free" mod, that is very disrespectful. I am downloading this "free" mod to test it out and make sure it works properly so that when I decide to use the "paid" version I don't have any issues. If I am correct that is your ultimate goal by offering this "free" mod, to obtain me as a "paid" client. I didn't know your "free" mods come with limited support. I'll keep that in mind for any future related issues that may arise with your free mods.

P.S. I don't view your mods as free, I view them as trails so that I may determine if I should purchase the mod. Again, thank you for your time in this matter.

well no offence this mod work ok but has way too many bugs with it admins and mods can use the features of this addon but normal users cant use it at all and work at setting everything to fix it but the features are too buggy as well i was gonna pay for it but if you can work on free version why should i pay for the pro edition.

vBDownloads v2 is expected to reach Beta status soon - . Unfortunately I cannot provide extended support for v1.3 for the very reasons you state.

Hopefully v2 will work better for you :)


Fillip

vBDownloads v1.4.0 - v2.0.0 Beta 2
Home Page

• Feature: The Search engine has been improved to now also allow you to search by description
• Feature: The Sidebar widgets now display on all vBDownloads pages
• Change: The Category list has been improved to more closely resemble the Forum list in vBulletin
• Change: The Recent Files, Top Downloads and Highest Rated widgets now change based on what category you're browsing
• Fix: The Search engine should now correctly limit the results based on your input

Favourites

• Change: The Favourites list now uses the same templates to display its results as the Search Results, leading to a more consistent experience

Category Browser

• Feature: The navbar now displays the full breadcrumb path back to the home page, traversing parent categories
• Feature: The Search engine now follows you around as you browse categories, in case you give up trying to find what you're looking for manually
• Change: The Child Categories list has been improved to more closely resemble the Forum list in vBulletin
• Change: The File list now uses the same templates to display its results as the Search Results, leading to a more consistent experience
• Change: The download's thumbnail is now generated via a new and more intelligent method that chooses a screenshot if available, and if not, the first image in the list of files

File Browser

• Feature: The navbar now displays the full breadcrumb path back to the home page, traversing parent categories
• Feature: File deletion is now fully AJAX'd
• Feature: Adding a comment now loads a new page with the full editor
• Change: The comments "postbit" now more closely resembles the vB Blog "postbit" (also found in our [DBTech] DragonByte Gallery modification by Dylan)
• Change: The "More From This User" now uses the same style as the file title for consistency
• Change: The download's thumbnail is now generated via a new and more intelligent method that chooses a screenshot if available, and if not, the first image in the list of files
• Fix: The download counter should now work correctly in all cases
• Fix: (Pro) Entering a download's password should no longer rarely send the user into a never-ending redirect loop
• Fix: (Pro) Refreshing the page while the user is waiting for the download delay no longer restarts the countdown unless they refresh again.

Upload

• Feature: A new, shiny uploader based on BlueImp's jQuery File Uploader has replaced the old uploader.
  This uploader has advanced features such as measuring network speed, ETAs and of course, progress bars.
  Fully AJAX'd and powered by jQuery UI, this uploader also lets you manage your existing files, deleting them with a single click.
  You are also able to abort a currently in-progress upload without reloading the whole page.
  Any existing themes made for jQuery UI will also work to style this uploader - more themes will be selectable in the future.
• Change: The "Category", "Mirrors", "Private Users" (Pro) and "Password Protection (Pro) input areas now use the same UI style for consistency
• Change: The "Password Protection" (Pro) input area no longer requires you to re-enter your password every time you modify the download
• Change: The "Extension Information" table has been brought inside the main content area, and is now placed underneath the file management area

AdminCP: System Information

• Feature: Storage Space Usage - the ability to see the total amount of space taken up by all your files combined
• Feature: Monthly Storage Space Usage - the ability to see the total amount of space taken up by files uploaded in the current month
• Feature: Bandwidth Usage - the ability to see the total amount of bandwidth taken up by users downloading your files (since v1.4.0 was installed)
• Feature: Monthly Bandwidth Usage - the ability to see the total amount of bandwidth taken up by users downloading your files in the current month (since v1.4.0 was installed)

AdminCP: Extensions

• Fix: Fixed a bug with the MIME type field being too small to store the correct MIME type for certain file extensions

AdminCP: Modules

• Change: Removed this entire area, converted into Usergroup Permissions for maximum compatibility with vBulletin & mods that alter usergroup permissions such as [DBTech] vBShop

AdminCP: Import Utility

• Change: Removed a slew of unnecessary steps
• Fix: No longer shows an empty header if you have no importable products

General / Other

• Feature: Deactivating vBDownloads in the AdminCP vBulletin Options now allows you to set a Closed Reason message
• Feature: Downloads Managers now has a one-click link to manage a download's Moderated status when viewing downloads
• Feature: The ModCP is once again functional, allowing you to approve moderated downloads as well as delete reported comments from one handy location
• Feature: Auto-moderation of new files is once again functional
• Feature: Thumbnails & screenshots should now be more resistant to over-zealous browser caches. Download thumbnails will re-generate if the number of files in the download changes.
• Feature: The profile tab is once again viewable, now with an improved display of downloads that match the rest of the product
• Feature: You can now re-arrange the display order of categories in the AdminCP
• Feature: Added compatibility layer for old vBDownloads thread links
• Feature: You can now choose the preview length for download descriptions
• Feature: Mirror links now display the number of hits they've received (starting after installing v2.0.0)
• Change: The entire code base has been rewritten from scratch to allow us to more easily add new features and fix bugs
• Change: Changed default category description on creation
• Change: Download description in the Category Browser is now truncated
• Change: Download description in the Search Results is now truncated
• Change: Download description in the Favourites is now truncated
• Change: The "Comments" tab is now hidden on downloads if there's no comments yet
• Change: Changed the breadcrumbs on the Category Browser to have "vBDownloads" as their root element for consistency

Fillip

arrggg after waiting for the import script to finish,
I am met with this error

"A required field called categoryid is missing or has an invalid value."

I'm pretty good with mysql, & phpmyadmin anything I can look for there to fix

Can you please be more descriptive as to where you are met with this error?

Fillip

Importing From DownloadsII (Step 3)
vBulletin Message

A required field called categoryid is missing or has an invalid value.

next screen right after importing from DII

got it, we had some private downloads for Admins only.
Your import script was raising the error because the category we put them in was non-existant

Ahh, thanks for letting us know :D


Fillip

Notify the author if somebody comment in his file.

Is this feature available in v2.0?

Where can I buy the pro version? When I go to http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbdownloads.php I get nothing.

I don't believe so, no.

We're not allowed to link directly, but you can find it via our front page :)


Fillip

is there a way to change the colour of the buttons when on the upload page from white to colour to suit the theme of dark one?

also same with the side bar info like the top downloaded and recent files to like dark colours?

im also having issues uploading any png or jpg or jpeg onto it for some reason i can upload zip file but not pictures for some reason.

Future versions will include the ability to switch jQuery UI themes.

You can modify the dbtech_downloads.css template in order to customise the sidebar.

You need to properly configure your categories to allow the extension groups containing the image extensions.


Fillip

vBDownloads v2.0.0 Gold
Feature: Added a "Move Files To" dialogue option to the category deletion interface
Fix: The category deletion interface did not display the "Are you sure" text correctly

Fillip

Hello

i have a strange problem. when ever someone tries to download something, download brakes immediately after few bytes.

all files are uploaded fine. i can download them fine if i download them directly using file manager in the cpanel.

any ideas?

thx

Please open the resulting file and tell me the contents of it.

Fillip

Hey Fillip.

Not sure what you want. it does not matter what file type it is. rar, zip, pdf. everything uploads normally but would not download. it does not give me any error. just finishes download immediately after start as if it is over.

I want you to either attach one of the corrupt files here, or open one of the corrupt files in a text editor such as Notepad and paste the contents here :)


Fillip

i can not upload it cause it is 0 in size. i'll PM username and password for a test user for you to test if that's ok.

any thoughts?

vBDownloads v2.0.1
Feature: The "More From This User" block now has a configurable setting for how many items are displayed

Fillip

Any working demo?
Does this mod supports friendly urls for "downloads" files?

tried reinstalling. but did not help. i'll try to uninstall and check for and delete all remaining files. than install again.