files

Drupal 6 does not handle non-local files well. That means if you want to use something like Amazon's S3 file service you are pretty much out of luck. Media Mover got around this by overriding some templates but the implementation did not work well for extensibility and left most use cases in the dark.

This quick video shows some of the progress that was made at the NYC Media Sprint last week. While it departs from some of the earlier mockups that we did this past spring, this is functional in terms of browsing and is quite a bit better thought through- thanks to all the smart folks sitting around the table.

Brian from Civic Pixel just let me know that he put together the Media Mover Remove module. In a nutshell, the module helps reduce file cruft by deleting extra files that were creating during a Media Mover run. You can find out about the use case that spurred this functionality.

Here's a quick report back on work that got accomplished today. Lots of code, coffee, and keyboards.

Here's the report back from the beginning of the third day of the media sprint here in NYC. You can see some improvements to the GUI. Today we're going to be working on several pieces- admin, formaters and stream wrappers.

A request came up in Media Mover's issue queue last week looking for Zip compression for files. I've been saying for quite some time that Media Mover is not just about media, but about file handling in general. While it works well for media, any file might need the same kinds of interactions that Media Mover provides for media- the need to create PDFs from doc files, or transform Excel documents into CSV documents are common enough that having programmatic ways of doing this is desirable.