12 May 2009, 10:28

Hello .

 I am a new User-Administrator of a Mahara Installation. It works perfectly !

One question.  A member of our college has around 800 files, in total 300Mb. How can we upload all of them and not one by one? Like, putting them in a folder on the server and somehow this folder appears in his files? 

Thanks in advance

12 May 2009, 11:10

Hi Yannis,

there is no utility to do a bulk upload. But you can start new uoloads right after clicking "upload", this speeds up the processs a little bit.

An elegant solution would be to write a php script to do the job. You have to know that all files ared added into the db and therefore need a special handling .

HTH Heinz

12 May 2009, 13:37

There's probably a feature request to be able to upload zip files and unzip them once inside mahara.  It's something we've talked about a lot in the past (moodle has this feature).

With the new import/export architecture in 1.2, it shouldn't be too hard to hook into the 'file' import plugin, and implement something like this.

29 May 2009, 3:49

Thanks for the replies.

 I think this feature is very useful. Migrating to Mahara would be much easier if this tool existed. Uploading around 300 files is not something interesting. 

 Anyway...we like mahara