TRIPLE X-X-X Uploads ???

[Xube]

In the file upload options area on my control panel it states the following:

Valid Extensions
Valid extensions that uploads may have. Separate each item with a space. For each extension, you should have a file in the /images/attach/ folder called xxx.gif where xxx is the extension of the file. This allows you to have an icon for each file type.

The file types I have selected as allowable in the next option box on my board are:
gif jpg png txt bmp jpeg

What does it mean when it states that "For each extension I should have a file in the /images/attach folder called xxx.gif?

Does this mean that once I turn on the uploads feature of my board(allowing users to upload files), that I should create one file (or folder?) over in /images/attach area with certain names...... or does this mean that as users upload images, the names of the images will be placed in the /images/attach folder area of my website?

Once I've turned on the upload images option in my control panel, do I have to do anything else (create some kind of "xxx.gif... xxx.jpg... etc files) on my website?

Thanks for any help with this one.

[Xube]

Related question?

One other (possibly related?) question I had about this is:

Once users start uploading files... is there an area I can go to where I can "prune" or delete these files if I want to eliminate them at some point? I assume they take up space on my web server.

[Freddie Bingham]

You have to add any images that we don't provide to you, such as pdf.gif, php.gif, rar.gif, etc. If you don't, a small broken image will appear where the image should go.

[Xube]

Re: Related question?

Thanks Freddie.

Does anyone have an answer to my other question?

Originally posted by Xube
Once users start uploading files... is there an area I can go to where I can "prune" or delete these files if I want to eliminate them at some point? I assume they take up space on my web server.

Where are user uploaded files stored on my board? I'm assuming(?) there is a way to access them...?

[Xube]

Re: Deleting Uploaded jpg's...gif's... etc

Anybody know this one?

Where are the files that posters upload to my board for download by other users stored ... and how do I go in and clear them out (delete them)?

[Freddie Bingham]

Attachments are stored in the database. There is no real easy way to prune them in v2.2.4. Version 3.0 has a section in the control panel to deal with attachments though.

[filburt1]

There are hacks at http://www.vbulletin.org/ to make hacks saved as files instead of in the db...

[Xube]

Originally posted by freddie
Attachments are stored in the database. There is no real easy way to prune them in v2.2.4. Version 3.0 has a section in the control panel to deal with attachments though.

Thanks for replying!

Is there at least a way to find where all the attached files are posted in the various threads of my board? Are their certain parameters I can use in my search query? Searching using the word "Attachements" doesn't work.