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Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,603 posts
See screenshot- this member just 'figured out' how to attach a picture within a post....and promptly attached TEN pix totally almost 10 MB in one post. I can foresee other members following her lead now.

Where/how is the setting where I can specifically limit this 'attach' capacity to something reasonable? I dont want to disallow atthments, just set a reasonable limit so members like her can't go hog wild.

I already have profile limits in place, but I don't think that controls forum post attachments.
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updated by @strumelia: 03/01/16 01:43:57PM
michael
@michael
9 years ago
7,715 posts
That's just got a "Can upload images/Cant upload images" setting.

ACP -> FORUMS -> QUOTA CONFIG -> File Attachments

Delete a few and warn them?
Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,603 posts
Quote: I dont want to disallow attachments, just set a reasonable limit so members like her can't go hog wild.

I don't want to turn off people's ability to attach. Is there no where that I can set a limit though?

I did delete half of hers in that post and I left an 'edited by' post about why I did. But I don't always see everything that gets attached in all forum discussion posts...isn't it logical to have a limit though? There are a lot of clueless people out there...especially among my senior members.


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gary.moncrieff
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
9 years ago
865 posts
Is Forum -> General Settings -> Max Attachment Limits (Select the maximum number of file attachments that can be attached to a forum post)what you're looking for?
Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,603 posts
That's it! I should have seen it, but its location eluded me. Thanks Gary, that's perfect! Solved. :)


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gary.moncrieff
gary.moncrieff
@garymoncrieff
9 years ago
865 posts
Welcome. Another area where this could be improved on is if in profile daily limitsit had the option to limit forum attachments per day. So that would give two levels the number per post and a maximum per period.

Just an idea.
Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,603 posts
Adding to that idea- I found it a bit frustrating that I couldn't allow admins to attach more or larger files than regular quota. I think a by-quota control might be good?


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michael
@michael
9 years ago
7,715 posts
gary.moncrieff:
Is Forum -> General Settings -> Max Attachment Limits (Select the maximum number of file attachments that can be attached to a forum post)what you're looking for?
Thanks Gary. :) The addition of that slipped unnoticed by me. Ninja setting. :)