id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
873	show config errors in filemanager	stumats@…		"I've noticed that an ongoing issue for many is that
setting up file and image upload is difficult.
Part of the reason is there is no documentation about
how paths to the File etc folders are created, and also
there is no feedback if you get it wrong - nothing to
help with fixing it.

In using the plugin ImageManager from Zhuo, I noticed
that it was much easier to fix config problems with
upload directories because the code reports, when it
can't access the directory, giving the url that it is
trying to use. With just that little bit of feedback,
you can usually fix the problem quickly.

If FileManager had some inscreen display, similar to
this, I suspect that a lot of those ""help me with file
upload"" problems would go away - or at least some good
suggestions could be made for peeple who get the error.

I suggest this as a high priority, since I see many
people spending a long time fixing this (and a number
giving up after hours or days and not being able to fix
it) - and my own experience of 2 days worth of
frustrating debugging, trying different upload plugins
and code hacking, before I could figure out enough to
fix the problems I was having.

The waves of relief and gratitude from implementing
this feature would be massive :-)
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