On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Ashraf Amayreh<mistknight@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't really understand why the files are not just stored relative to the files folder rather than the site root.
That way, changing the location of the files folder would only entail changing the file path inside the administration.
When retrieving file paths the function doing that could simply call file_directory_path() and append the filepath from the database. Isn't this how it should standardly be dealt with, or did I miss something?
Not to pick on you specifically, but if you'd read through the issue that ufuk linked to in the very first reply to this thread (http://drupal.org/node/366464) you'll find plenty of discussion about the complications that prevent this from being such a "simple" change. Can we please move this discussion over to the issue queue? andrew