Bravo! I took your suggestion and added uploads.dir=/documents and settings/.... to my roller-custom.properties and restarted Roller and all of my graphics were back! Hopefully we won't have any more graphics go missing in the future.
Thanks for your help! Nelson -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Dodunski [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Just Lost All My Graphics Hi Nelson, I'm running Roller 5, and to set an absolute storage location I added the following line to roller-custom.properties: mediafiles.storage.dir=/home/roller/data/mediafiles However, I noticed that Dave's suggested directive has a different name: 'uploads.dir'. Perhaps Roller 4 uses slightly different naming. Irrespective, add your directive to the Roller properties file. Regards, Chris. > Thank you so much! This is a huge help and a great relief to have > found my graphics files. I actually found them in the home folder of > several different users, apparently once each time a different admin > logged on the server. > > If you don't mind answering another newbie question, where can I find > the uploads.dir setting? I'd like to set it to my home folder since I > expect to be the Roller admin for the forseeable future. > > Thanks again for your help > > Nelson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 8:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Just Lost All My Graphics > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Nelson Chamberlain > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wow! I just lost all of the graphics in my Roller 4.0.1 blog site. >> We have about 15 blogs on our site and all of them suddenly have zero >> graphics. When I go to File Uploads in any of the blogs, the images >> are gone, as well as any directories that held additional graphics. >> >> Any guesses what happened? Any easy actions, like rebuild indexes, >> that will bring the graphics back? Or do I have to add the images >> back one by one? > > Roller 4 uses only the file-system for upload storage and does not > store any information in the database. So, if the files are gone in > Roller then either 1) Roller has the wrong directory set as the > uploads directory or > 2) somebody deleted the files from disk. > > If you explain more about your Roller setup maybe we can figure out > what went wrong. What app server are you using? What directory were > you using to store file uploads? If you did not set the 'uploads.dir' > propoerty, then Roller will use the default value below: > > uploads.dir=${user.home}/roller_data/uploads > > That means that the files are stored in the home directory of the user > who runs the Roller process. Perhaps somebody deleted that directory? > > - Dave > > > > >> >> Thanks for any advice on this issue >> >> Nelson Chamberlain >
