[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by berayiwu5

Hi, AndrewD,

I understand that LDM stores uploaded files in a location different from that of attachment files uploaded into the vBulletin platform itself. One problem I am having is that I'm getting warning messages about MySQL quota limits: I would need ever-increasing amount of MySQL database quota to allow for the growing number of files uploaded via LDM. And this is something my host provider is not quite willing to do. It looks as if LDM is storing the files in the database itself, but different from where vBulletin stores its own attachments.

Now vBulletin has the ability to move the attachments from the database to the file system--which would avoid this MySQL database quota problem. Is there any way for LDM to do the same?

Thanks for your help.

Kai

LDM does not store files in the database. It stores them in the file system.

What is held in the database are all the records of these files, and also a full record of all downloads. Usually, the LDM table that grows big is the 'downloads' table. You can prune this via LDM/admin/statistics