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#16058 Suggestion about configuration wizard

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 03:25 CDT

carcam
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? No
Have I searched the tickets before posting? No
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.5.11
PHP version: (unknown)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: hostgator
Akeeba Backup version: 3.7.7

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Description of my issue:

I have just updated a site to the latest 3.7.7 and I have gone to a profile I have configured to backup to dropbox, in the dropbox setting I had already set a limitation to 100MB for my files to avoid the 150MB limit problem. I'm having issues with that site so I have run the wizard to get the best configuration (based on your wisdom ;)). After running the wizard the dropbox file size limit has increased to 2 GB so obviously the backup is not going to work. Wouldn't it be easier to not allow files higher than 150MB to dropbox or at least detect that in the configuration wizard and limit the size?

thank you very much.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Normally if you use the Configuration Wizard the post-processing method changes to None automatically. It does some assumptions and is meant to break post-processing when you use it :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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carcam
Hi Nicholas,
thank you very much for your response.

As when upgrading the component you can choose to run the configuration wizard and actually you can do it whenever you want, I think it might be a good idea detecting some post-processing and not changing values accordingly or at least showing a warning. I'm surprised you did not get a complaint about that yet :P.

Anyway, just a suggestion ;)

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
It's probably owning to the fact that I have documented its exact behaviour ;)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

carcam
Yes, because users read docs :P

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
When they complain, I tell them to read the fine manual (with a link) ;)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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