would it be possible to have sub directorys so each board has it's own attachment directory ?<br />Right now all attachments are saved in one directory so it's a little hard to clean it up .<br />I have one board thats for graphics , I'd like to keep all them online but clean up all the attachments from the rest of the forum.<br />so looks like a attachment directory hack is needed<br /><br />it would be sweet if someone could tackle this one .<br />

What do you mean by "cleaning up"? Don't the attachments get deleted when you delete the corresponding posts?<br /><br />In any case, I think a simpler approach would be an addon for cleaning up the attachments, which displays them by board. That would minimize the hacking required.

In this thread JustDave helped me with a utility that deleted all my "orphaned" attachments. It worked great. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hey, this idea isn't stupid. The attachments are not organized in any way. <br /><br />I think what he means is the following:<br /><br />Board UBB1<br />Board UBB2<br />Board UBB3<br /><br />/attachments/UBB1 ; announcement board<br />/attachments/UBB2 ; files for users<br />/attachments/UBB3 ; avatars<br /><br />He has different categories and wants sub directories so that he can directly see which files are belonging to which category. I think that give a nice overview how much space a category needs and could initialize a cleanup (delete old shite <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />))<br /><br />Nice suggestion I think but I see also problems. What happens if a thread with an attachment is move from one board to another? Also the attachment must be move then etc...

That would be very doable.. and I guess you'd need to modify the scripts that move and delete threads as well, so that they move... delete the attachments from the proper location.<br /><br />Probably would be very doable. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

yes thats what I mean .<br /><br />each board would have it's own attachment dir .

I was wondering this too. I am working on putting up a sheet music section on my website. I am using Dalan's article template and inline attachments for this. It would be great if I could keep all of the sheet music files seperate from the other stuff. <br /> <br />So the reason for this post? Just wanted to raise my hand to say someone else would be interested in this. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

he he<br /><br />It's a long paying list I'm working on right now... but if I ever find myself with nothign to do... I could think of a use or two for this myself. It's on my list. Someday. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

You're so very kind to think of us every now and then. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />