Beat me, but I am using the simplest download function
>
> def download(): 
>     return response.download(request,db)
>
> and it works without database entries.
> Well - I got a table defined like this:
>
> db.define_table("t_files",
>                 #Field('file', 'upload', uploadfield='picture_file'),
>                 Field('f_file', 'upload'),
>                 migrate=settings.migrate)
>
> But there is nothing in it.
>

Yeah, it's sufficient that you have defined the table. 
response.download()simply needs to access the t_files.f_file Field object in 
order to get the 
upload folder (which is an attribute of that Field) -- it doesn't actually 
query the database itself.

Anthony

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