Moodle

This goes to Michael...

I'm going to pass this to Mark.

Did you include course files in the backup? I don't think lesson should not do its own file backup/restore.

Yes, I checked the "user data" next to the lesson, and also included Course files. The images are originally in moddata/lesson/lesson_name, and they are not copied in the backup ZIP.

Looked through the backup code and it looks like the modules are responsible for backing up content in the moddata directory. When I coded this, I was not too clever about the directory naming structure Should be moddata/lesson/lessonid. Since I used the lesson name, there is no way to identify 100% of the time which directories in moddata/lesson actually need to be backed up.

The solution might be that we convert to the proper method and then any new imports would work with backup/restore automatically while old imports the files will have to be moved manually.

I think just copying over the whole moddata/lesson directory every time is not a good solution because it could copy over data that is not needed (EG: user data is not selected for a specific lesson).

Going to need to fix this in 2.0 or drop powerpoint import - this was my bad idea, since MS changes the structure of the powerpoint export this is very expensive to maintain.

Reassigning this to moodle.com for the time being, since Mark Nielsen is not maintaining Lesson any more. Please comment/vote/patch any crucial bugs that affect you for 2.0 to help us prioritise fixes for the upcoming release.

Possibly related:
Had a course with lessons that contain images. These (images) were course files in 1.9.
Since upgrading the site to 2.0 (School Demo), the images in both lessons have disappeared, files missing.

Hello,
the problem is that moddata should not be touched by users directly, it is intended for data created by module code.

You can not put any images into moddata folders manually, sorry. Please move your images to standard course files and update links from text.

Petr Skoda

Hi, Petr,

maybe I wasn't clear when describing the bug. I didn't put any images manually, nor messed with moddata directory. The images, which are a part of the imported PPT, were inserted automatically via import PPT process in the lesson. Hope it makes more sense now.

Oh! That would be a serious bug in the lesson import process, it should not put any images into moddata because it is linked from text stored in database.

Reopening, somebody will have to write a fix for this at least in 2.0 upgrade.

I have create a new issue for the lesson upgrade problem MDL-23781.

Unfortunately it is not easy to fix this in 1.8.x or 1.9.x, sorry.

Sorry for the noise, I should have read all comments, but at least I can now deal with this issue during the 2.0 upgrade.
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