UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums General Suggestions and Feedback Attachment organization

Our forum has posts going back to 2006 and our members include many photos and documents. Everything goes into a single attachments directory. It takes cpanel File Manager a verrry long time to even list the files in that directory.

It would be helpful and much more workable if UBB would create subfolders under attachments based a time period and place the attachments there. URL links contained in the post metadata would reflect the sub-folder. When the calendar flipped to the next time period UBB would create the next sub-folder and put all attachments for that period into the folder.

The time period should be a setting in the config file
Yearly -- 2020
Monthly -- 2020-04
Weekly --2020-04-week number of year

This way admins of Low, Medium, and High volume forums can choose the time period that suits them best.

Abbott

+1.
I have requested the same before. Due to a photography site that had 40,000 files in one folder.
And good luck listing them in a ftp client if there are more that 9,978 files.
But instead of a setting of number of files per folder
It would be nice to have folders created by month and year with the file during the upload..

There was a mod that did this very same thing but it became outdated because of the times and became riddled with security issues.According to UBB.