Thread: File Upload Manager

Originally Posted by Midnight Blues

Hi,
I will not quote your post.
It seems You are not reading posts from Caty.
What use is to "warn users" that files will be removed, if files will be removed?
Some very old files posted from members that don't visit this forum any more are still available because they are useful and important to others.
Members that uploaded these files maybe don't have them anymore, because they don't need them, but somebody else might need them.
I don't have some files I posted as attachments few years ago, so I can not re-upload them if someone asks.

Do You understand now what is Caty talking about?

Ok, looks like no one is understanding what I'm saying. So I will explain again. Currently, files are allow to be attached if they are less than certain size. This doesn't change. If you want attachment of files larger than that, then it will be a temporary attachment. This is the warning I'm talking about. So you give warning of something like this "Warning: files with size larger than XX will be automatically removed after YY months." You give users the warning because 1) only large files are removed and 2) that they know that it will be removed. I usually attached small files (screen snapshots and it's great that it stay forever). But coming from a standpoint of server storage, it's not a good idea to accumulate "large" files over time. Unless you're gonna rely on admin (such as Catymag or Neil) to attached "large files" (for you or re-up) so it will stay around, my suggestion is a sound one.
So unless gpspower.net is turning into a fileserver service, I don't think storing "large" files "forever" is a good ideal.