Upload folder in Tridion Content manager missing

Question

While doing a migration of tridion 5.2 to Tridion 2011 SP1 HR1, we noticed that there isn't a upload folder in the Tridion 2011 content manager directory.

The upload folder of Tridion 5.2 used to contain all files that where uploaded as a multimedia component, even before they where stored in Tridion.

Since our image crop-tool used this directory, is there a way of making this folder available in Tridion 2011?

Answer 1

The upload directory is still used, but for security reasons it was moved outside of the web application (C:\Temp by default I believe).

You can configure it, though -- it's the Tridion.UploadDirectory element in System.config.

Answer 2

To find the MIME type based on the data of the file see the following post:

Using .NET, how can you find the mime type of a file based on the file signature not the extension

But depending on what you want to do with the file before it is created within the repository there might be much more elegant solutions, e.g. the event system.