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.