Ugh.
Don’t use /files/ would be the fix, since we actually dumped that for all new Multisite installs (that is, if you installed a fresh version of Multisite starting with 3.5, there’s no files/ anymore).
I managed to dump it for my site (see http://halfelf.org/2012/dumping-ms-files/ ) but it’s a little convoluted.
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mrdb
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Okay, great news. I started on an earlier version of multisite and yes, I would love to dumb ms-files… BUT although I appreciate your detailed effort explaining step-by-step how one can do this for themselves, I’ve been wasting too much time with multisite lately and cannot justify the effort right now. I have not yet searched this but I thought I should ask you while we are at it, how difficult is it to create a fresh install of multisite 3.5 and then transfer my 6 blogs across? And I guess more importantly, my main challenges with multisite have been finding decent themes that work well with WPMS, streaming media on multiple browsers & smart tablets/phones and resizing/displaying images (timthumb.php) simply because of how files are stored and retrieved in multisite. Does the new multisite still have these issues to your knowledge? Are files stored and retrieved more sanely now? Thanks so much for your expertise.
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how difficult is it to create a fresh install of multisite 3.5 and then transfer my 6 blogs across
Easier than dumping MS files, but more time consuming, since you have to rebuild and move, and some people find moving multisite to be difficult.
finding decent themes that work well with WPMS,
All GOOD themes work fine with Multisite. Seriously. TimThumb is special, however and does not work well with Multisite and /files/, so really I just never use it. I’ve never had a need to, to be honest.
ETA: Anyone who implements TimThumb correctly, using the WP constants for folders, should be just fine.
Are files stored and retrieved more sanely now?
Yes. They’re in /uploads/sites/#/YYYY/MM/image.jpg – no redirects.
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mrdb
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Thank you for your time. New 3.5 Multisite install it is….
Have you heard any issues with the new file structure regarding streaming media to different browsers and mobile devices?
I manually changed my site to the new method: http://halfelf.org/2012/dumping-ms-files/
Haven’t had any issues with streaming media 🙂