This ZopeProduct allows ExternalFile to be managed in CMF/Plone. It's in the Collective.
an issue --simon, Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:24:01 -0700 reply
When you add an External File in a plone site with ZWiki installed, it creates the file under Products/ZWiki/plugins/externalfiles . Cause unknown, workaround is to set an absolute path in portal_externalfiles.
CMFExternalFiles0?.5 changes the location of storage after the install
of new Products -- Sun, 26 Jun 2005 05:32:55 -0700 reply
I discoverered something similar but with a different interpretation. The filepath which is used for storing the external files depends on which product ist installed last. My site is a 2.0.5 Plone on a MacOSX? System. CMFExternalFile used /sites/MySite?/Products/CMFExternalFile/Extensions/externalfiles/... as a path for local storage. This differs from the path ¢zope/var/externalfiles which is state in the documentationb.
After installing new products the path switches into the Extensionss directory of the latter .
No idea why it happens
Armin info@acsr.de