SUGGESTION: Uploading takes forever cause there's a billion files

[W13]

Uploading IPB takes FOREVER because it has soooo many files. Why not just have :

install.php
upload.zip

And the install.php will use PHP's zlib to unzip all the files on your server and then take you through the install or upgrade.

[rct2·com]

Or, even better, go back to the days where a zip and a gzip were available for dowload.The gzip could be uploaded as a single file, then unzipped on the server and all the files and folders automatically had the correct CHMOD values.

[princetontiger]

This was done once in some variation... many people reported problems.

[Munnday]

One of the biggest issues with this is that a lot of web servers limit the max. file size for an uploaded file - aswell as this, some also limit the time the server is allowed to extract the files.

Thus, although a pain it maybe, it's actually easier and creates less issues having to upload all the files unziped.

[Dark Phantom]

It only takes me 5 minutes at the most to upload the files for IPB. Considering there is, lets say 1000 files, I say this is pretty good. Plus the fact most files are small, most of the transfer time is switching files to be uploaded.

Once its uploaded is not really a big deal, talking about 2 minutes for updates at the most after that.

[W13]

It only takes me 5 minutes at the most to upload the files for IPB. Considering there is, lets say 1000 files, I say this is pretty good. Plus the fact most files are small, most of the transfer time is switching files to be uploaded.

Once its uploaded is not really a big deal, talking about 2 minutes for updates at the most after that.

It's exactly 20 minutes since I started the upload (via FTP to my webhost)... and it's still going...