File Uploader, move photos after sending

[Kevin M. Cox]

Hey Kirk,

Right now there is an option in the File Uploader (I'm using it for FTP) to "Save a copy of transmitted photos:"  I'd like to see an option to move the original to a different folder (instead of creating a copy) after it has been successfully sent.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kirk Baker]

Kevin,

Right now there is an option in the File Uploader (I'm using it for FTP) to "Save a copy of transmitted photos:"  I'd like to see an option to move the original to a different folder (instead of creating a copy) after it has been successfully sent.

This is a feature that has been requested fairly often but is not able to be implemented in such a way that it would be guaranteed to always work.  The issue is that while the images are being transferred, the user could delete the original, rename it, move it, etc.  Now, I know that you wouldn't do any of those things because you wouldn't want to make the feature fail, but the possibility is still there and we think it would be quite possible for problems to happen.  It is for the above reasons that each time PM does any kind of upload it has a phase where it copies your images to a staging area that cannot be browsed by PM and thus the uploader can guarantee that the image being uploaded cannot be misplaced.  There is still the slight possibility that the user could find the staged files and muck things up by renaming/moving/deleting them, but there is only so much that PM can do to protect the user.

-Kirk

[Kevin M. Cox]

It is for the above reasons that each time PM does any kind of upload it has a phase where it copies your images to a staging area that cannot be browsed by PM and thus the uploader can guarantee that the image being uploaded cannot be misplaced.

Does this mean I can go ahead and manually move the original files after the Upload dialog starts?

[Kirk Baker]

Kevin,

It is for the above reasons that each time PM does any kind of upload it has a phase where it copies your images to a staging area that cannot be browsed by PM and thus the uploader can guarantee that the image being uploaded cannot be misplaced.

Does this mean I can go ahead and manually move the original files after the Upload dialog starts?

Yes, absolutely.

-Kirk

[Kevin M. Cox]

Awesome, thanks! I had been waiting for the upload to complete to move them assuming things worked like a normal FTP client which would then get an error because the file had disappeared.