I wanted to update on this, I have set the Maximum file upload size in PHP to 512 and that is what is showing in the Joomla system info as well. However on the frontend it is showing it like this Maximum file upload size is 2.24 TB [main_upload_maxsize: 512M]. That cannot be right, what is calling this 2.24 TB to the page? Nothing I cannot just ignore but it looks a bit ridiculous.

Hello Kevin,

Take a look at your profile type's access. Perhaps the access for the profile type is set to a much larger value?

Thanks Mark, I am assuming you are referencing the type that is in EasySocial? I do not see this profile type in EasyDiscuss?

In the process of all this I found an update for EasySocial and could not get the install from web to work. In the process I found that when I download the full version it is not uploaded to the tmp folder and instead goes to administrator/components/com_easysocial/setup/packages/. This is inherently a bad idea on your part, especially since a blank index.html file is there. Anyone that knows this location can go to any site that has EasySocial, open that folder and have free access to the extension package. In essence you guys have made a way for those that have no subscription a way to get it free. Even with an index.html file there is no hash or anything on the upload and it would be easy to guess and find out if the file exists. Might want to look into that and put a block on that loophole...

I might add since there is no way to manage this upload folder and because it is not something we think about it can grow to a very large size making our sites large without any benifit. I would suggest either use the default Joomla tmp folder that we can maintain and keep clean, or give us a way to delete these old versions from the component. Sure we can just FTP in and clean it out, but it is not something I am going to remember to do and I am sure I am not alone thinking that. I found I have versions as far back as 1.3.6 in my folder and while I did not check to see how large that made my site, its safe to say it is a sizeable chunk of my backups.

I stand corrected, it appears with 1.3.11 it deletes the files in that upload directory. Since I had already deleted the old versions though I cannot confirm the old versions would have been removed as well?

Hello Kevin,

Ah, sorry I thought you are actually referring to EasySocial but looking at the thread again, it looks like this topic was posted in EasyDiscuss. Could you start a new thread with your issues and the site access please?

As for the installation file, as soon as you initiate the installation, and when the installation completes, the zip file will actually get deleted

Thanks Mark, you might want to look into the install issue though. I have followed all my updates to their conclusion and checking this folder this morning I in fact had about 9 prior update packages that did not get removed after completion and had to remove them manually.

Hello Kevin,

Hm, thanks for the heads up on this. Perhaps there was some permission issues which prevents those files from being deleted. Will run through another check again!

Thanks!

I have a number of these old packages backed up and if I get a chance I will setup a demo site and test this out and see if I can reproduce it. If I can I will shoot you a super admin and ftp info that you can use to investigate this.

Thanks Kevin! Let me know how this goes