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1. viciouslime
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   When you upload a .tar.gz file it gets renamed such that "example.tar.gz" becomes "exampletar.gz". Is there a fix for this, or a better way to manage downloads on my blog?

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Upload it via FTP and provide your users a link to that file name.

   See:
   Uploading_WordPress_to_a_remote_host

3. viciouslime
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ok, thanks, that's what I was going to do, but I thought there might be a more integrated method.

4. copperblade
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'd like to figure this out too. I'm not going to give my friends all FTP access and require them to understand how to use it just so they can upload files...

   I was willing to go the .tgz route instead, but it seems even if I add .tgz as an allowed filetype, it is blocked.

5. yvess
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I added
   'tgz' => 'application/x-compressed-tar',

   to wp-includes/functions.php, function wp_check_filetype()

   then I could at least upload tgz files

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