Pictures and other attachements

[goshalim]

Goodmorning all ,

Does anyone knows where ( in which file or folder ) through FTP all these attachments are saved ?

[snakes1100]

Vbulletin uses two different types of storage for attachments, they can be stored in the database or the file system.

admincp --> attachments --> Attachment Storage Type

This will tell you how the forum is currently storing attachments, if they are stored in the DB and you want to move them to the file system, you will be prompted to put in the correct folder path after you have created the folder, you can find your path in the phpinfo under the maintence section, typically in the last box of the phpinfo page.

SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] /home/xxxxxxx/public_html/forums/admincp/index.php

You path ie = /home/xxxxxxx/attachments (chmod the attachments folder to 777)

I store them under the public_html for security.

[goshalim]

Thank you so much for your reply .

It seems that they are kept in the Database , and i cannot find them.

Any ideas who do i go there or is it impssible ?

Thanks again

[Lynne]

If they are in the database, then they are in the attachment table. But they aren't something you can go and look at in there.

[goshalim]

Hi Lynne

I went to my admin panel and then to Attament Manager and to storage Type.

Look what is written

Help Storage Type: Attachments
Attachments are currently being stored in the database
Action Move Items from Database into File System

If I press OK , all attachments will be trasfers to the FTP file ?

Is that a problem.

On my old version of bulletin i had them on hte ftp file. When i upgreated they are stores now in database and none of the ola attachemnts were transfer to the new forum.

Please help me

[Lynne]

You may put them in the file system if you'd like. You need to first create a folder to put them in and chmod that folder to 777. The folder should be above your forum root folder for security purposes and so people may not have direct access to it. However, if you lost a bunch of attachments, they are not going to magically come back when you move them from the database to the file system.

[goshalim]

Thank you so much for your reply .

The thing is that i havent lost them . I see them in my old forum I which i havent delete it ) . they are in a folder there called image hosting.

What i am going to do is when i creat a new folder as you said , i will then copy the whole folder ( from the old forum ) and paste it on the new .

Is it going to work that way ? What do you think ?

Thanks again

[goshalim]

Lynne , hi ,

Iam waiting for your opinion please .

Thnaks

[Lynne]

If they were in the file system on the old site, then why didn't you just copy the images over when you moved sites? It's unclear to me whether they are actually currently in the database or in the file system. If they are in the database, then you should be able to just move the to the file system and all should be fine. But, if they are really supposed to be in the file system but aren't, I'm not sure what you should do. I guess at this point, I'd save my database (as a backup) and try to move them to the file system and see what I get. Then, if you only have some, try moving over some of the files from the other server and see if that works.