By Anonymous (not verified) on

Well I have been dreaming a files/ system with sub folders for a while, lots of uploaded files in a flat directory is not good for scalability. But that's not as urgent as my immediate needs described below.

I have some questions on the upload module:
1. is it possible or is there a tweak to upload multiple files at once(e.g. select a folder instead of a single file each time) ?
2. if I have tons of files on the webserver instead of my local drive(plus, my upload speed is not that fast), is there a way I can "upload" those files to the files folder within the webserver directly? say, modifying some mysql table after I did a local file copy on the webserver. otherwise I have to download them to my local drive, then upload them one by one.

I know some of these requirements are in video/image modules, which tells us it's a popular requirement, how hard is it to provide a more flexible "upload/files" solution in drupal?

I wish I know how to add these code myself...

Thanks a lot!
xxiao

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1kenthomas commented

See http://drupal.org/node/207754: you can upload from the Drupal-local drive in batch either from image import or from asset, there is no remote batch option (yet) that I know of.