heh .. it is getting rather large isn't it .. :p

Perhaps a way forward would be to give it a plugin system similar to vB itself. This would allow for a basic links/downloads architecture for people who want it (therefore easier to install/configure) and then extra's like photos, music etc would be able to be added as people found need for them and got used to the system.

Most of the size is caused by having to upload six different translations of the installation file.

There is a now full plug-in architecture inside LDM, but it's too late (at least until I decide to take a six month sabbatical) to go back and un-engineer everything into discrete modules.

It would help, though, if the vb.org people could work out a better way to handle complex add ons like this. As it is, we have to put everything in one zip file and in one thread per VB release. (They got unhappy with me for pointing the vb36 thread at the vb35 download - even though the software was the same.) I appreciate the difficulties, but...

quick q:

how do you limit the number of items that show in the "New Entries LDM" for the Forumhome display (one of the extra plugins)? I thought I knew where but I forgot and now can't find it. :/

like ya'll said..its a HUGE mod.

ps. I emailed ya ;)

Unless it's run away, the admin setting is links_seen_on_portal

woot! thanks. ;) :)

Sorry, you do not have sufficient download allowances available at the moment.
Allowances: 100 files/6 used, 0 Mbytes/ 0 MBytes used

any ideas anyone? just trying to play file not download it?:confused:

Playing counts as download because it consumes server bandwith. Have you enabled (ticked) both file and bandwidth limits for your usergroup? (LDM/admin/bandwidth). The message is saying that you've not got enough bandwidth left.

Yes both ticked - server has only used 3% of bandwidth and the other files play? its just an mp3 file, that has worked previously :confused:

Sorry if I'm not being clear - if you click these settings, you're telling LDM to limit the number of files each user can access each day and how many bytes they can transfer , via LDM. If set, each time you start a download (or play a file), LDM sees if total use in last 24 hours + new file > allowance.

If you don't want to restrict bandwidth, then unclick the bandwidth column. Similarly, files.

I imagine that, for the ones which still download, you have not put an entry in the VB attachments table. So LDM is not handling them as 'downloads' but is relying on the fact that your PC is configured appropriately.

Ah - sorry yeah misunderstood you there :tired:

Thats solved it - thanks Andrew