[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9907: Upload directory in miscellaneous settings wrongly defined

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#9907: Upload directory in miscellaneous settings wrongly defined
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 Reporter:  kreativdienst  |       Owner:             
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  3.0        
Component:  Media          |     Version:  2.8        
 Severity:  minor          |    Keywords:  needs-patch
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Comment(by gazouteast):

 It's a forked problem ...

 On one hand you have the regular forums issue of users reporting media
 paths of wp-admin//uploads/blah (notice the double slash) or wp-
 admin/uploads/uploads/blah (notice the repeated folder name).

 On the other hand you're saying the /wp-admin/ folder is non writable by
 WordPress - sorry, but to me that's a basic folders and users permissions
 issue, and one reason why hosting services have 24x7 live help buttons on
 their websites.  Doesn't matter what you do with WP code, if the hosts
 have locked down write permissions to account user only, there's no way
 your code is getting past that until the user (or hosts) open the
 permissions up.

 Now lets look back at what I suggested ... somewhere on your hard drive
 you've got a photo of your kids with their granny on holiday - where is it
 most likely to be?  In a folder by year and month, or in a folder called
 /photos/kids/ ?  Hmmm?  Why should it be any different on a webspace?

 If WP is about being easy, they SOME bits of it should follow normal user
 behaviour patterns, and splitting different media types is just so natural
 to most people, that doing the same into WP folders (rather than just by
 file type extension) is so blatantly intuitive, that I'm surprised it
 hasn't been done before now.

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