That would mean changing the way comments work. Right now, users can delete comment files and comments. They are considered part of their portfolio and thus should count towards their disk space I think as they can use them like any other files in other areas. If we introduce another area where to place comment files, that could be misused to get around the disk quota restrictions for individual users.
Institution administrators can always increase the file quota for all or individual users manually. And if it's primarily the teachers putting large files into student portfolios, that shouldn't be a problem. ** Changed in: mahara Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: mahara Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1548263 Title: Feature request : Attached files to comments should not count toward disk usage of the users Status in Mahara: Opinion Bug description: Since a couple of versions of Mahara it is possible to add files to comment of a user's page or artefact. The manual says : "Comment authors can attach a file to their comment to give you longer feedback or oral or video feedback. The files that they add are placed into your personal *Files* area so you can use that feedback later on." The files (video, audio, text) are then added to the users' files area and I understand that they count to determine the remaining allowed space given by the admin to the users. Because the size of documents added that way to users' files area is not controlled by the users, I think it is not right to count these in the calculation of the remaining quota. 1/ I suggest that files attached to comments are managed in a special folders (e.g. Users'Files --> Commments) and that this folder don't count to calculate the remaining users' disk quota. 2/ In addition to this we could have a site admin setting to manage a quota for files attached to comments to avoid a server overloading by tutors commenting on users' productions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1548263/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : mahara-contributors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp