Hi All;

I upload images to a mojoPortal folder under Data (D:\webs\MW\pub\mojoPortal\Data\pix) on my Live website. This works lovely and I'm delighted with it; but, I'd like to see the same images when developing, and when testing. For a while I xcopy-ed the folder tree to development; but, I have more than 9 GB of images now and copying it around is tedious.

I'm using this to upload the images:

String pathPix = "Data/pix/2"; // 1o original, 1t thumbnails, 1r regular size.
FileUpload1.PostedFile.SaveAs(Server.MapPath(pathPix + "o/" + temptext));
String MyString = ImageReSizeAndSave(Server.MapPath(pathPix + "o/" + temptext));  //Standardize image in r/ from o/.

And I save the reference in SQL like this:

imageURL = "~/" + pathPix + "r/" + MyString;
SqlDataSourcePI.InsertParameters["PartImageLocation"].DefaultValue = imageURL;
 

I'm wondering if there's a way I can point at the Live image paths when running in the Development and Test environments.

Or perhaps there's a way to make the MSDOS, or Windows OS levels have Development and Test point at the Live folders. Were I running Linux or Unix I might mount that folder, or create a link.

Any thoughts you have are very much appreciated,
Dale E. Moore

Thanks for the thoughts on the copy scheduled task!

Development, Test and Live; 3 times 9 GB and growing... I'm a sad boy:(

Would I be foolish to look into keeping the images inside the SQL database thus giving access to all 3 environments?