Planetfurry BBS

Ryan Fox · Guest

*Ahem*

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[Uploaded: 30.67 MB / Quota: 5 MB / 613% of total]

Uh somebody fix this.

Nite · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

Recently, I noticed that Whip downgraded the storage quota from 1024 MB to 5 MB. Apparently, the file attachment module must not check if you're uploading when you're over the limit... that's a bug in the module, not the actual phpBB core.

Ryan Fox · Guest

Well it states that I have exceeded my storage limit by 513%, file or
attachment size, if I could remember correctly was limited to 1MB.

-sighs- it's days like these that I just feel like starting up my own..
nevermind -.-

Whip-lash · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject:

More than likely, unless it actually let you upload and post the attachment with your message, it's just saying you are over the allowed limit.

Previously, though misconfigured, users had no set limit to how much they could have attached in messages. It was defaulting to the max the BBS as a whole could use, which was 1 GB. To fix this I reconfigured the module to use the following limit groups:

Max - 1024 MB (Planetfurry Administrative Staff)
High - 5 MB (Planetfurry Moderation Staff, Site Owners)
Medium - 2 MB (Default)
Low - 256 KB (Nobody assigned yet. Used only for users who abuse the attachment module for rules which are currently being written up.)

If you have already uploaded more than this, you will have to delete older attachments to make more space available to your account. Currently there is no way to link your Planetfurry Site Account's quota to the Planetfurry BBS, and since the file repository was only growing in size and taking longer to backup, this measure had to be taken to try and trim back excessive use.

A few recommendations:

When uploading screenshots, try to scale them down to both smaller physical proportions as well as filesize.
For those with Planetfurry Site Accounts, try to use your personal site space before using the attachment module. It's likely you have a higher quota with your site account then will be available using the attachment module.

If you need a list of attachments that your BBS account is using, please PM me and I will send it to you.[/list]

Whip-lash · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject:

Ryan Fox · Guest

Hmm So I'll have to delete nearly 30MBs of attachments that entails renders
and snapshots of my CG work in order to use this service again. A little
harsh. And if I require more, I'll have to part of the admin group. I really
hate asking.. –sighs- Guess I'll justhave to stop posting here then.

hikaru · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:16 am Post subject:

Actually, just upload them to a remote webserver and use the IMG tag command to display the picture. That's what most folks do.

Whip-lash · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 1:22 pm Post subject:

Whip-lash · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject:

For the time being I have created a temporary quota limit for Site Owners. It is set for 50 MB, which should allow you to post additional files without receiving an error about your quota limit being exceeded.

However, for those with site accounts, the less used by the attachment module the better. This isn't to have people not use the BBS attachment module, but to use existing space more efficiently if at all possible.

Unfortunately, until backups can be created on a local link to the server (right now they are done remotely, which chews up a ton of bandwidth), these minor changes will have to be made.

hikaru · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject:

Whip-lash · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:14 pm Post subject:

hikaru · Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:55 am Post subject:

No sweat. Contact me via E-Mail and I'll get you setup with an account on my SQL host and we can get things rolling.

Cheers