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can this be an alternative to ftp? i don’t want to give ftp access to my web dev so i need something to bridge the gap
i already bought it.. and i have a problem
this error comes out after i installed the plugin
“Unpacking the package…
Installing the plugin…
Could not create directory. /var/www/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/advanced_file_manager_5/
Plugin install failed.”
regarding with my first question i mean will this plugin can be used to upload to WP admin back end so my web developer can work seamlessly without the need of FTP login
Hi,
Is this plugin already installed in your site? You can email me the backend access, I’ll see what the problem is.
it is not installed, where is your email?
i already fix it by changing permission.. now my problem is i can’t seem to connect it with my FTP
You can email me through my profile link here.
When using user roles to assign folders, I appear to be running into issues with multiple user roles. Is this a known issue or is there something I’m doing wrong?
Hi,
Multiple user roles could have issues with filemanager. Filemanager assumes all user are assigned to single user roles. It should work fine in most situations though.
Hi, I run into this issue (blank screen, unable to apen folders) and I want to share it:
elfinder debug: error Unable to open ”#”.
Folder not found. #205
Hi,
I had the same problem and after searching for a while, I’ve successfully tracked the problem.
On the line 3457 of elfinder.full.js, the is an event bound on the window called message which call an additional request. When calling a new request, it aborts current requests of type open.
Now, the problem was one of my extension installed on Chrome, Grammarly in my case. That extension was triggering message on page load, aborting the initial request of elFinder. When it was doing the .sync, the target param sent in get was empty, causing the error.
From what other users are saying, they might have the same problem. Elfinder works on other browsers since they probably have no extensions.
Now, the fix was easy, disabling the extension solved everything, but it is not practical. In the end, the problem is not with CRUD, nor Laravel-Elfinder, it is in elFinder itself. I’m relatively new to Github, so if someone could reference this issue to elFinder (or even better teach me), it would be nice!
The question to elFinder authors is: Would using a prefix for the event instead of a namespace be possible? It would solve that problem at least.
Reporting issues in github is easy, you can just go to elfinder repository > issues > New Issue
Here is the link:
https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder/issues
Getting “Unable to Access Backend” error message. I’ve changed the execution time to 5 minutes and the max upload to 2 Gigs so something else going on.
Hi,
I got your email. Replied too.
Hi!!
I’m Esteban from Cuchillo. Just bought your plugin (which works fine, superb thanks) but we need your support for the following:
1. We have an issue regarding IE11 (and previous versions, but IE11 is still supported for clients) as when using drag/drop the file goes to the folder located just below where we want to drop it. 2. We want to extend e-mail notifications adding a weekly summary of the files updated. Have you considered that for future versions? As this will be useful, we can help you on testing.
Feel free to e-mail me to esteban@somoscuchillo.com
Best!!
Hi,
If enough users ask for this feature, I’ll add it.
About IE, there are some features not available for IE users, but the new edge browser should work fine. IE is not updated anymore by Microsoft, so any future enhancements in the filemanager may also not available in it too.
Hi,
many thanks for your reply. I think a summary notification might be useful, specially when using this as a document repository 
As regards IE11, we already know that 
The point is that it also happens on Edge. Anyway, as I don’t have it fully updated, will try once again as soon as I get back to my W10 computer.
Best
Great, let me know if you need anything else.
Hello, my client purchased your fantastic plugin and I am submitting this support request on their CodeCanyon account. The preview and thumbnails features work immediately after installation, but stop working soon thereafter. We have removed and re-installed the plugin, but the problem occurred again. Upon failure, the preview function returns a WordPress Page Not Found error and the thumbnails are replaced by the generic image icon. I’m hoping there is a simple solution.
Thank you!
After reading your response to related support requests, I thought I should add the following information. 1. The GD library is installed (for thumbnails). 2. When preview is working, it successfully displays previews of PDF documents.
Hi,
Can you email me the backend access to your site. I’ll check this out.
I discovered the cause of failure for thumbnail generation and the preview, open, and download commands was an incorrect URL generated for uploaded files. I found this problem by inspecting the URL reported in the dialog created by the Info command. All my files and folders are saved under http://mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/. The links reported by the Info dialog were of the format http://mydomain.com/folder-under-uploads instead of http://mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/folder-under-uploads I created redirects in .htaccess for requests to those folders and now all those functions I mentioned above work properly, including preview of PDF documents. Any file the browser is capable of displaying should be previewable.
Using the example above, the .htaccess directive looks like Redirect 301 ”/folder-under-uploads” “http://mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/folder-under-uploads/”
NOTE: The double quotes are only necessary if your path includes spaces.
Great, I am glad it worked out
Hi, can i do the following: i want to upload 800+ files in bulk – all pdf – is this possible within your plugin? Does your plugin create a liste according to the uploaded files automatically? Thank you
If your server settings allow you to upload this many file simultaneously, then yes it is possible. Check and see what is your max_file_uploads setting in php.ini file is, more details:
http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.max-file-uploads
Thanks. And Does your plugin create a liste according to the uploaded files automatically?
It wont create a list, but there is an optional file upload notification email for the user default folders.
Hi,
I recently bought advance file manager 5 .I would like ask, how do I implement user file activity log? We need to have users files access log to monitor users. Do you have any workaround or plugin to achieve this.
Thanks
Gogul.S
Hi,
You’d have to modify the plugin to keep the log. Its not built into it.
How do I do that? any idea or suggestion please.
If you know php, it wont be a problem. You can go to php folder inside the filemanager plugin and find the files which you can modify.
Thank you .I will give a try.
How much it will cost ? if you want to implement for me.
Email me the details, I’ll let you know the price and time required.
hi is this updated for WordPress 4.9?
Yes, it will work fine on the new wordpress versions.
Yes, it will work fine on the new wordpress versions.
Yes, it will work fine on the new wordpress versions.
thank you
Hi. I am purchase File Manager today. I have downloaded plugin file. I see “advanced_file_manager_5” .... is this last version? i think last is v7, isn´t it? Thanks
Hi,
Yes its the latest version, the 5 at the end of the folder is fine.
My notifications are not being sent to my email.
Hi,
You have to configure the notification from the settings page of wordpress. Also notification only works for the default folders, it doesnt work for the regular folders.
I just purchased your app and really like it. However, the reason I purchased it was to allow only those users with accounts to access pdf’s we have uploaded.
After creating a number of folders and uploading the pdf’s, I am able to access the files by copying and pasting the URL into another browser that is not logged into the site.
I apologize if this question has been answered before.
You must be have assigned a folder with public access. You can restrict the direct access to that folder by adding an .htaccess in that folder with this text:
deny from all
More details here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9282124/deny-direct-access-to-a-folder-and-file-by-htaccess
Also make sure you are not doing this directly inside wp-uploads folder, otherwise all your public data wont be accessible inside the theme.
Thanks for the help. We use WP Engine as our host and tech support had to go in and create a rule so that any file urls in my “protected” directory are subject to .htaccess rules
Great
How much does it cost you to program a group notification mail for us? We would like to see this soon. I like to hear from you
Sincerely,
Albert Kruize
Hi,
You can email me the details and we can discuss it there.
Hello there, I’m keep getting this error: “Invalid backend configuration. Readable volumes not available.” Only when I use another user group for read/write permission. I have enabled the permission in the admin panel. Thanks /Daniel
Hi,
Can you email me the backend access, it must be some small mis-configuration.
i buy this plugins but it show error when register new user in my site.. the error code is “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare listdirs() (previously declared in /home1/abrahim/public_html/clippingpathgraphics.com/wp-content/plugins/advanced_file_manager_5/settings.php:37) in /home1/abrahim/public_html/clippingpathgraphics.com/wp-content/plugins/advanced_file_manager_5/settings.php on line 54”.. and website link is “http://clippingpathgraphics.com/register/”. please have a look when user register it show error.. and let me know what need to do.. thank you
Hi,
I cant see the url you sent me, it needs me to log in, can you email me the backend access. I’ll fix this issue.
what’s mail?
I got your email. Replied.
You mentioned “There is no option for tags or categories. You can organize the files with folders.”
Is there another plugin that works with yours and would let me add custom fields and categories?
For every set of files uploaded, I need some information like Author, Upload date, version, categories and tags.
Do you know of another plugin that does this and works with your plugin?
thanks
Hi,
The files uploaded through the filemanager are not creating new posts, so you cant add custom fields to the files. You would have modify the filemanager in the front-end to make these fields. Its not an easy job though.
Hello, Great plugin except I am running into a weird issue: I have a queue of two files. One of them is slightly greater than 10mb and the second is less than 10mb. When I try to upload them both together, greater than 10mb file is successfully uploaded but the less than 10mb file is not uploaded. There are no errors that the plugin spits out. Could you please help?
P.S. Its not a server issue. I already increased my limits per your suggestion to others. I am able to upload the greater than 10mb file alone without any issues. If I have 10 files in the queue for upload with 9 of them less than 10mb and 1 greater 10mb, it skips uploading one file (sometimes even 2) in the queue right after the 10mb file and uploads all the rest successfully.
Hi,
Can you show this to me on your site. I’ll check it out.
Hello, I have recorded the steps (using steps recorder) and sent screenshots to you at your gmail account. Please let me know once you receive it.
Got your email, replied.
Hi
Does this plugin support the uploading of entire folder elements at one time – either by copying a folder over or by unzipping? We have the need to use the folder structure for our site but also for HTML5 elearnings which are just a collection of html files stuffed in a folder per elearning.
Hi,
Yes, you can zip the files / folders and then upload and unzip back.
HI! Our wordpress site is now out for beta testing, comments etc from the group paying for it and I had a question that I couldn’t find the answer for in the comments.
on the filemanager display, is it possible to not show the permissions (and perhaps the type column) column to allow the file name to spread out?
they’re teachers, they make everything way too long.
Use the list view, and add this css in your theme:
.elfinder .elfinder-cwd table td {
width: 100px;
}
.elfinder .elfinder-cwd table td:first-child {
width: 400px;
}
thanks for the quick answer, will give it a try!
It now also spreads to the full-width and it’s awesome!
Last question, is there a size limit for uploading? Everything has gone up quickly except for two mp4 files, each about 94mb. Smaller mp4s in the 20-30mb range uploaded with no problem.
thanks for all your help! Kathy
Hi,
There is no file size limit, even if you have file size larger than your max upload size, the latest version of the filemanager will upload it using chunking.
Thanks! I guess I wasn’t giving it enough time
I just walked our IT guy through it and he noticed that our upload limit was set to 64mb, he’ll see about changing it, sorry, user error! (our users love the file manager interface)
Great
Hi! File Manager is running fine, I had a question though. Since we’re letting users have the ability to upload and delete items and some aren’t too computer savvy, do you know of a program or plugin that we could use to do an auto-backup of the file manager contents every night?
Our IT would love to auto-backup the entire wordpress site if possible, because we’ve found out the one included with Wordpress doesn’t work too well but we definitely don’t want to lose the file manager contents.
I thought you might know of one compatible with this program
thanks, Kathy
There are lots of backup plugins out there, I dont know which one is the best suited for you, but you can find out here:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/7-best-wordpress-backup-plugins-compared-pros-and-cons/
as always, thanks! – Kathy
Hi, I am user of this plugin for a long time. Now I see, that with updates there is huge difference between user roles.
In the past was primary Wordpress role Subscriber set for User and Additional role was FolderUser-A. Role FolderUser-A was set to FolderUser-A Group. And FolderUser-A Group was set to specific folder. It worked fine.
But now I see, that Primary role must be FolderUser-A. Is there any way to avoid that setting?
Sometimes single User is part of different Folder Groups and if Primary Role is set to FolderUser-A, user can not access different Folders. I tried to set Role Affiliate to Subscriber for FolderUser Group, but it didn´t work.
I will appreciate if you could send me idea how to set this up.
With Kind regards, Beno
I am not exactly sure what you mean, but you can assign any folder to any user role, or individual user. There is no restriction.
You can either generate a shortcode for the user roles, or you can just assign a folder to a user role and show all the folders assigned to the users in the front-end through this shortcode:
[filemanager foldername="*"]
