Subfolder system for attachments

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It is solved if you use a cloud provider yes. But it also makes it easy to solve for the local storage: we can handle it completely in the local adapter. (Maybe with a fallback check for BC reasons)
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Nicofuma wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2017 8:52 am It is solved if you use a cloud provider yes. But it also makes it easy to solve for the local storage: we can handle it completely in the local adapter. (Maybe with a fallback check for BC reasons)
Yes, it can be done.
About backwards compatibility, i think it may not be necessary, i have an idea.

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I have submitted a pr for this https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/4968

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rubencm wrote: Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:38 pm I have submitted a pr for this https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/4968
Interesting, I hope you tested it.
By the way, what if the board gets upgraded from a previous version? Will the existing attachments (all in one folder) still work?

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BadBlock2 wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:40 am Interesting, I hope you tested it.
Not much really
BadBlock2 wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:40 am By the way, what if the board gets upgraded from a previous version? Will the existing attachments (all in one folder) still work?
The number of subfolders used is configurable, and by default is 0 (no subfolders)

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rubencm wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:05 am
BadBlock2 wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:40 am By the way, what if the board gets upgraded from a previous version? Will the existing attachments (all in one folder) still work?
The number of subfolders used is configurable, and by default is 0 (no subfolders)
So, no transition from 0 to 2 subfolders and thus no use for the existing forums?

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BadBlock2 wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:39 am
rubencm wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:05 am
BadBlock2 wrote: Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:40 am By the way, what if the board gets upgraded from a previous version? Will the existing attachments (all in one folder) still work?
The number of subfolders used is configurable, and by default is 0 (no subfolders)
So, no transition from 0 to 2 subfolders and thus no use for the existing forums?
If you change the configuration (you change the number or subdirectories or the mail directory, or even the storage system), all files will be moved from one configuration to another (but sill isnt done)

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Re: Subfolder system for attachments

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I was wondering if this very important features is implemented or not.
According to the tracker of open tickets https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-15371 it will be present in version 4.0.0 even if in this topics https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... 6&start=15 it is reported that is included in the core of 3.3....
So I have another question: in which release we will find this feature and when will be available this relaese?
Is there any other way to solve the issue without waiting for years and without introducing personal patches?

We have about 400K attachments in our forum and this reduced number has been obtained by single deletions of uploaded files; about half of the uploaded files have been deleted, the remaining are important documents for biodiversity in Italy and we would like to preserve them.
Even if our provider is kindly providing any kind of help for the management of the monstre "files" folder, allowing for unlimited file number in FTP download and reserving a quad core processor esclusively for the execution of our pages with more than enough RAM and disk memory, we are starting to have problems mainly related to the number of files in a single folder.

Thank you for any helping answer.
Daniela
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3.3 was released on January 6, 2020.
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