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Last Post 10/07/2007 9:58 PM by Peter Donker. 1 Replies.
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PjRon
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10/07/2007 2:45 PM

I'm not sure if this is specifically a webdav issue but I've been having some trouble getting large files to upload into the repository.  I basically have a mix of content including office files, zip files, and the usually stuff --- but I also have some (not a lot) demo virtual machines which are very large in size (e.g. 8Gb). 

Because they are so big, I would normally copy them up to a server separately and put them in a directory for downloading --- but I'd like to include them in the normal directory structure for DMX so my users can easily see and get them.  Problem is, DMX has folder contents and all that internalized so it doesn't seem I can do that without monkeying directly with the db structure.  I'd rather not do that.

I did think well maybe I can just try the upload into DMX on the server --- and it would process very quickly since it would basically be a local file copy.  Unfortunately, I must have a file type problem because the upload component doesn't fire up for .vhd files.  So that doesn't work.

All in all, I like some of the features of DMX but need to figure out if it will work for our needs and our clients.   Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ron

Peter Donker
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10/07/2007 9:58 PM
Hi Ron,

Some things to take note of:
1. For very large files upload you'll need to tweak the web.config (maxRequestLength, requestTimeout).
2. File types are parsed using the DMX_Extensions table. Have a look at it and see if you want to add the vhd for it to recognize.
3. DMX doesn't care one bit about the kind of data it receives. Bits are bits. All it does is look at the extension and assigne a file type.
Let me know if this doesn't advance your project.

Peter
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