[Booki-dev] Reinstalled Booki, now picture uploads don't work

[James Simmons]

Aleksandar,

I see the instructions you refer to.  I'll give them a try in the morning.

James Simmons


On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:27 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aleksandar,
>
> When I try to upload a picture I press the Upload button and NOTHING
> happens.  I am uploading to the default directory for the book, and
> even when I create a brand new book specifically to test uploading
> pictures NOTHING happens.  It seems to me that the code is trying to
> do something it can't, perhaps through no fault of its own, and it
> just decides to pretend nothing happened.  No log messages, no helpful
> message boxes, nothing.  If I don't have a permission set or a
> directory is missing or something like that it should TELL ME.  The
> exception handling in Booki seems to be nonexistent.
>
> I don't want to muck around with the database unnecessarily.  So far I
> haven't lost my book, that is I can reconstruct it somewhere else like
> Sigil if I have to.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Aleksandar Erkalovic
> <aerkalov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi james,
>>
>> some things have been changed lately. booki deployment and new install
>> procedure is one of the things.
>> besides moving attachments to new directory you also need to change
>> something in the database. maybe
>> it has changed in latest versions of django, but django was saving
>> full path to attachments when it was
>> saving them to non default dir. you can check end of INSTALL file for
>> instructions what you have to do. that will
>> give you access to all of your old attachments. also, do database
>> backup before that. i guess, just copy sqlite3
>> data file somewhere. just in case something goes wrong.
>>
>> new attachments... do you have correct permissions on your new
>> attachment directory? when you upload attachment,
>> does it get saved in data directory somewhere or you just don't see it
>> in attachment dialog?
>>
>> aco
>>
>>
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