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5/25/2009 3:08 PM
 

Our 2+ year old DNN site is at 80% capacity, so it's time for me to start thinking about how to manage the content. I'll probably be looking for large/old files and then purging them.

I can't be the first person to encounter this problem. What do other people use for this purpose?

This seems similar to but different from what's required to setup a sitemap. I expect I'll need an FTP spider/crawler to make note of what files are on the site and their sizes. The thought of using the DNN File Manager to try and browse my entire site makes my head explode - that's not what the tool was designed for. Of course, ideally once I identify a large file I'd like to know where it's referenced on the website so I can eliminate the reference.

Our hosting provider says they have no tools for this purpose.

Suggestions very gratefully received...

-Bob

 
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5/25/2009 3:27 PM
 

Perhaps the File Manager in IWeb can help:

http://iweb.adefwebserver.com/


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5/25/2009 6:17 PM
 

Interesting, but honestly that's still a toy example. I'm talking about a website with > 1GB of content, and 25 top-level folders (and who knows how many subfolders), and our site still isn't what many would consider to be large.

Our site will have many hundreds of files, maybe > 1000. I can't browse it a folder at a time, making notes about file sizes on paper. I need something that shows me collected disk use by folders (recursive), and allows me to sort filenames (irrespective of folders) by age and/or timestamp.

I can access the website via FTP, so some sort of FTP crawler that gathers statistics about file sizes and timestamps might be an acceptable compromise, if I could find such a thing (anybody?). Figuring out where the references are to a given file would be important as well, but my feeling is that may be challenging with DNN?

If we expect DNN to be used in production environments, we need to think big in terms of production/enterprise quality management tools to allow people to manage their sites. Managing disk use is critically important. Something like the DNN File Manager, that shows at most 50 files at a time, one folder at a time, isn't adequate for this kind of task.

 
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5/25/2009 7:00 PM
 

Have you taken a look at the Document Exchange (DMX) module by Peter Donker yet? 



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5/25/2009 7:36 PM
 

radman wrote
 

Interesting, but honestly that's still a toy example.

So you have tried it?



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