WP Multisite subdomain images

Hi Meron,

Thank you for writing to us.
Do you know the location of your media files for the subsites? Are they located in a folder different than the main site?

Hi Yani,
Thanks for your reply email.
I’ll answer your questions to the best of my knowledge.

From what I understand with multisites is that the main site images/media are in:
wp-content>uploads folder
And the subdirectory images are stored in:
wp-content>blogs.dir

The server I developed the multisite on [dev server] has folders 2-9 with image files in monthly folders in the blogs.dir folder.
The server I migrated the site to [migrated server] has folders 2 & 3 with only a 06 monthly folder with no files in the blogs.dir folder.

Right now this is what I can see has happened:
1. All 9 sites of the multisite were imported.
2. On migrated server I’m missing the subdirectory media folders that should be in blogs.dir. The import did create folders for site 2 and 3 with media folder for June. e.g. blogs.dir>2>files>2014>06 They are empty.

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And I didn’t notice earlier but I also have the message:
Upload folder is not writable. Export and file upload features will not be functional.

I’ve been searching on the net for that and it may be an incorrect file path that I may be able to correct in the options.php file. But I haven’t been able to fix that yet.

I hope this email is understandable. Want to include everything that you may need to help me correct the issues.
Many thanks.

What an awesome reply.
You provided everything that I need to help you move on.
1. Media files for other blogs
– The plugin only moves the files located in uploads folder. You can copy the files over yourself OR let me change the plugin code to copy this new folder and update the plugin (for this option to work, please send an email to [email protected] and we can kick it off)

2. For the uploads folder not being writable
– My guess is that blogs.dir doesn’t exist because it was not copied. If you create a folder with that name and make sure that it is writable that warning message should disappear.

Let’s resolve #1 and then if #2 is still an issue we can look into it more carefully.

Thanks Yani,
This is starting to all make sense. And your plan is a good one.

1. I had already started to download the blogs.dir folder from the dev server and will upload them to the migrated server.
Then I’ll check and see if that corrects the situation.
If not I’ll check the permission on the blogs.dir folder.

2. Just to be clear. The blogs.dir folder was created during the migration import. I don’t think I made that sentence very clear in my initial email. And sites 2 & 3 folders were created with 2014>06 monthly folders. I’ll check the permissions before and after I upload the new files and let you know.

The blogs.dir folder is large and may take sometime for me to down/upload so I may not respond until tomorrow.

Appreciate your help. Get back to you asap.

Perfecto!
Migrated the blogs.dir folder via FTP and works beautifully.
Your product and your support are amazing.
No wonder I felt such a good vibe when I found your plugin.

As soon as a commercial version is out, I’ll buy it. Want to support development like this for wordpress!
Many, many thanks.

Excellent. I am glad everything resolved so fast.
Thank you for your support and if you have any suggestions how to make the product better, let us know.