[TYPO3-dev] Why File mounts limited?

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Franz Koch wrote:
> I think Tapio is asking if this limitation is necessary by default. I
> mean - the filemounts are most likely only defined by admins - so why
> limit things for them by default?

Because some database field could have only a limited number of entries due to the field length restriction. I do not want to check that particular field but some fields are varchar, so they are limited to 255 characters only.

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Dmitry Dulepov
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