Upload Folder

[fay66]

Anyone else having problems with the upload folder

I tried to upload something last night which wasn't a large file, + four photos of about 600kbs in total, only to be informed again that my "Upload Folder was full"


Brian
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[Neil]

Brian, same message here 5 minutes ago, I will mail Harvey to investigate.

[ncundy]

yep, happened to me as well

[Harvey]

I picked up Brian's e-mail this morning and doubled the size of the upload folder again  . I'm loathe to delete the old attachments as there are some useful photos there, but I don't know how many terabytes we can take before the ISP complains...

[ncundy]

Any chance of asking the committee for a bit more funding so that we don't have this problem ?

If we want to have this resource as some kind of perpetual knowledge base it's not going to be worth the effort if every 6 months we have to skim a load of attachements off on a FIFO basis. At this rate all the photos of great restoration projects, problems and cars that people use for inspiration, advice, a picture is greater than a thousand words etc posted a couple of years ago will be gone in about 18 months. Its not really what we are about is it...............or is it?

[Harvey]

Nope, I've not deleted any attachments, explicitly for the reasons you gave - for example, keeping the record of your Fanalone restoration. I was just rolling my eyes at how often I have to double the size of the folder! We're at about 20GB used so far. I don't know what our deal is, but I'm sure storage is cheap. Rest assured, everything posted is safe.

[fay66]

Hi Harvey,
Thanks for upping the folder size again, but 20GB sounds pretty small beer in the scale of things where storage is concerned these days, I have a stand alone back up hard drive of 500GB and they are available at under a £100.
While I appreciate paying someone else for storage is going to be more costly,surely it can't be that expensive?

Brian
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[ncundy]

Thanks Harvey,
As you and Brian say, memory is so cheap now it would be a shame to spoil the ship for a hapeth of tar.