On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 04:42 PM, SP4149 wrote:
When I view attachments I find several file types in addition to the more usual image types.? Some of these like video files and pdf files seem to be allowed and occupy more storage than the expected jpg and gif files.
Ken -- There is no provision to inhibit attachments of a certain file type.?
The result is that attachments image storage is several times greater than the E-mail photos albums. Video files can easily consume the "FREE" 1GB
image storage.
You bet. If you want to keep people from doing that you will either have to strip/bounce attachments entirely, or moderate messages containing attachments so you can manually remove offending ones before they post. See Admin>Settings>Message Formatting>Attachments for options.
Removing attachments is cumbersome as you have to delete the message first and then log back into View Attachments.
Within View Attachments, click on the Size column header to find the biggest offenders. Each Subject name tabled here is an active link to the corresponding message. Having clicked that, select Edit Message from the More menu, and you can delete the attachment while still keeping the underlying message (i.e.: click its "Delete" checkbox before saving). When done, click the "Back" button on your browser a couple of times and you'll be back in View Attachments again.
So yeah, that can be a struggle. It might be nice to just be able to just tick a few checkboxes and delete a selection of attachments from the original table display. But with power comes responsibility, and having such a feature would also make it easy to delete something that you really wanted to keep.
The current way forces you to examine each attachment in its original context, and has some merit on that basis...at least from where I'm standing.
Are their any plans to make management of attachments easier or manage upload of video files separate from photo images?
I don't see anything to that effect on , unless it's covered under "Attachment Improvements." It might be more straightforward to filter attachments by size rather than by file type.
Regards,
Bruce
SP4149
Bruce