Hi!

We just bought DMX and are glad with the many options it provide but, despite searching the forums and the web, we can't put our finger on how to do the following:

We already have a live site with loads of documents/images etc, total size over 6 GB!. All these files are stored in the portal roots (/Portals/0/) and underlaying folders.

For easier file & folder managment we would like to use DMX instead of DNN's native FileManager.

How can we setup DMX to use the existing dnn portal root folder as its root folder? I know of the synchronisation feature but i would like to avoid DMX duplicating all files which would result in 12GB storage instead of 6GB. I also think with the ammount of files, the scheduled synchronisation would take much time and serverload.

We know we can change the rootpath in the admin settings but how can we get all existing files automatically showing in DMX when we select the DNN portal root as basefolder?

Please advice if and how we could set this up,
Thanks in advance!

Jonathan | I-Company

Hi Jonathan,

The content that DMX manages needs to be stored by DMX itself. This means you have 2 options: either you have mirror copies (i.e. 12 Gb), or you completely move to DMX (6 Gb). In the latter case you'll have proper security, but you won't be able to reference a document like before. Instead you reference a document through a url that passes through DMX. I'm not sure what your use case exactly, so I can't make the decision for you. One thing though: you can't 'show' a portion of your hard disk through the DMX interface like that. Note DMX also does versioning of documents which would already generate conflicts with the documents that are actually on disk. Nor could it properly protect content from direct access if you point to existing files.


Peter