Hello, ZPUGDC.

We're using the Plone products AttachmentField, FileSystemStorage and 
PloneExFile and they're running well. However, we'd like to be able to 
have batch system processes external to Zope overwriting the file 
content stored on the file system.

Our exisiting configuration involves automated uploading via Zope FTP 
and that has proved unreliable. Every couple dozen Zope FTP file uploads 
randomly fail without error. We've also seen the same Zope FTP 
unreliability with manual desktop to server uploads of large collections 
of files.

Either way, we have multiple gigabytes worth of daily-revised files that 
we need to serve via Zope/Plone but store on the file system. Has anyone 
done something similar? Any best practices? Thanks!

FYI, we are aware of Ingeniweb's file modification caveat: "Can I modify 
content directly on FileSystem? No it's dangerous, contents using 
FileSystemStorage are not notified about filesystem modifications."

http://ingeniweb.sourceforge.net/Products/FileSystemStorage/#readme
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john.kavanagh(at)mdafederal.com wrote:[...]

Looks like ExternalStorage may handle this better than 
FileSystemStorage. http://plone.org/products/externalstorage
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you might also want to look at ATManagedFile and Enfold Desktop (free  
for non-commercial use). The DavPack product is supposed to improve  
WebDAV performance and reliability.

http://plone.org/products/atmanagedfile
http://www.enfoldsystems.com/Products/Desktop
http://plone.org/newsitems/DavPack

If you are interested, I have some email messages which discuss the  
differences between the 3 external storage products: ATMF, ES and FSS.

Nate

On Nov 15, 2005, at 9:49 AM, john.kavanagh(at)mdafederal.com wrote:
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Nate Aune - natea(at)jazkarta.com
http://www.jazkarta.com

Nate Aune wrote:[...]

Thanks, Nate. Yes, I would be interested in reading those e-mails.
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Same here...

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Subject: Re: [ZPUGDC] external file system storage and file modification


Nate Aune wrote:[...]

Thanks, Nate. Yes, I would be interested in reading those e-mails.
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Same here.  Perhaps, someone could post these to ZPUGDC site?

On Nov 17, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Boos, Paul M. wrote:
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