[TYPO3-dev] Referencing files instead of copying

[Kasper Skårhøj]

Hi Robert,

Conceptually it is forbidden to have M-1 references to files in  
"uploads/" so what you are asking is not a switch in the install tool  
but a new file-field type that doesn't copy the file but references  
it (like other records could so do as well). This has been planned  
for a long time but I don't know if anyone is actively working on it.  
It is not a simple patch, it must be implemented so the reference  
table and everything else acknowledges the status of a reference and  
not a 1-1 relation (so for instance the file is not deleted when a  
refering record is).

- kasper

On May 8, 2006, at 21:32 , Robert Markula wrote:

> Hi list,
> I dream of something like a install tool option which enables file
> references, so that files are referenced to and not copied. Kasper
> mentioned something like this in december.
>
> This would save quite some disk space as currently all files are  
> copied
> to the uploads/ folder for each record seperately.
> Having file references would also make it easy to replace files which
> are referenced from more than one place (just replace the file in
> fileadmin/ and this change is immediately reflected in all records  
> that
> reference to this file).
> Plus it would be really cool to see which records reference to a
> specific file :) (the basis for this is already there with the  
> reference
> index table, it just does not work because the records link to the  
> file
> copy in uploads/, not the original file in fileadmin/).
>
> With DAM (and the 'dam_ttcontent' extension) it is only possible to
> enable file references for the tt_content table, not for all  
> extensions
> out-of-the box. I guess enabling file references for all extensions
> would require a change in the core, right?
>
> Cheers,
> Ro
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- kasper

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