Where are the attachments gone?

[spreepiraten]

Hi there,

I am running a standard installation of mantis on my server. Now with more and more projects my database ist fully packed with attachements, I used to work with. Fact: I have to clean up. Exporting or saving the database itself is no problem. But these hundreds of attachments are nowhere to be found. I don’t use any special kind of setting for the upload of attachments (DISK, FTP, whatsoever). Via FTP I can’t find a single file, which is self explanatory. But where are these fucking files gone? Is there a SQL line I can drop to download any file in a certain table?

I hope someone understands the deal.

Thanks very much in advance...

Best, Floyd

[cas]

most likley they are stored in the database itself.
You can change to DISK and move them all to disk (there is a facility in the admin section).

[spreepiraten]

Ups...

[spreepiraten]

Thanks cas,

I don’t really know where I can find this section. In the Mantis or in the Database via phpMyAdmin? Where do I have the possibility to setup DISK as storage? Where on the disc will the attachments be stored then? And how do I move my recent files from the database to the specific folder?
Sorry, but I didn’t install the mantis, so I don’t know anything about it. Thanks for your help though.

Best, Floyd

[cas]

Suggest you get into the manual, it is all described.
Also moving attachmenmts from DB to Disk (any place of your choice) has been described many times

[spreepiraten]

So you can’t help me in fact. No answers to my specific questions. Just the advice to help out myself. Sorry, this is not, what I expected. Should I google my problem? Come on. I have to work, don’t have time for suggestions like these.

Is there anyone, who is able to tell me, whether I have to setup DISK within Mantis or the database itself.

[atrol]

Change file config_inc.php set $g_file_upload_method = DISK
http://docs.mantisbt.org/master-1.2.x/e ... IG.UPLOADS
Follow the given instructions
http://www.mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopi ... 782#p42683

[spreepiraten]

Thanks very much. Everything worked out well...

Now, when I upload a PDF file I can just see some documents with crypted titles. What can I do to see the original attachments in this folder?

[atrol]

crypted titles

Are you talking about the file names?

[spreepiraten]

Yes. The files, that I can see currently don’t have any endings (.pdf) and don’t have their filenames anymore. They are now called something like "5b46a9420668ee2c8569bfac6647bcf".

[atrol]

You can find the name of the file in database table mantis_bug_file_table.
There is a column "diskfile" containing the full path where the attachemnts are stored and a column "filename" with the original name of the file.