Int Marine

3.2.53 is the last version that allows the internal /mnt directory to be the storage for the download files.

3.2.54 ended that feature.

What was this trying to solve? Please revert this capability – it allows security, it allows separate and convenient backup without bulging the wordpress space.

I cannot run the current versions – what bug fixes have been made such that I am running potentially risky software?

Thank you.

Hello Nayeem
3.2.50 includes the ability to route to my servers /mnt directory
3.2.60 removes the ability to route to my servers /mnt directory
3.2.70 continues this problem

Please ask whether and when this facility can be brought back – the idea of running old software in these times of bots checking for any security flaw…well, it isn’t good policy.

Thank you,
InternetMarine

As you say Nayeem, indeed, the /mnt folder is at the root directory, which is standard for unix systems. I have successfully kept my DM files there for many many years. It was an allowed place in the DM Settings tab. …perhaps even suggested – when I set up DM many years ago I wouldn’t have known about /mnt

DM is successfully downloading my current files in the /mnt/down__ directory. This is not magic, this is the way that DM used to be.

But New DM Documents won’t route to there. The Settings will not allow it anymore.

For me, this is a problem. My Download files are several GBytes large. If they are in the public_html directory, the backup files would be too huge to handle and take too long to create. The files are also more safe there. It has never happened, but if someone did break into my public_html directory, they (hopefully) cannot go up to root.

The important thing is that this access issue has been changed in DM. Did this change with the “Server File Picker BETA”? Can I go back to the way it was before?

Thank you,
Int Marine

Hi and thank you for your answer. I was writing about a download issue, and your answer is about uploading.

But it seems that ‘turning off’ the Output Buffering and Resumable Downloads selections in the settings is the solution. I also doubled the download speed to 8192, and wow! the download really goes fast. 6 gig in 10 minutes for one person.

Can you say for certain:
For downloading, is there a limit with the Free version of the Download Manager?

I am getting close to making the package work well – I thank you all – and will be giving those 5 stars soon.