Community Forum - Attaching Files

[Garnett.Robert]

To the keeper of the community forum.

Hi

I tried to attach a small test project written with STM32CubeIDE. I tried it as a zip, but that was not allowed. The advisory for the file attachment wrote that .tar files were allowed. 

 

I used 7zip to make a tarball, of 9.3 MBytes. It seemed to upload; progress bar etc, then disallowed the tarball.

 

The post i wished to attach the file to was:

https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus-products/stm32-cubeide-how-to-set-values-in-dtcm-to-non-zero-values-using/m-p/724368#M261855

 

We were able to upload such files in he old version of the forum, why not now? Is it a security issue or what?

Is there a work-around?

It is quite frustrating. Simple problems can be articulated with code snippets etc in the body of the posts, but having a working complete working program  enable users to work through the code in its entirety and see the context of the code within the project.

Kind Regards

Rob

 

[TDK]

Yep, we're all annoyed with it too. ST says its due to "security concerns" but that doesn't resonate with anyone else. *.7z or *.rar will work.

Please support .zip attachments - STMicroelectronics Community

[Andrew Neil]

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@TDK wrote:

ST says its due to "security concerns" but that doesn't resonate with anyone else.

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Indeed.

In fact, I think you can just rename a .zip file to .7z and the forum will take it!

[Laurids_PETERSEN]

Hello @Garnett.Robert,

I'm pleased to let you know that you can upload .zip files on the ST community. We know this has been a pain point for our members, especially given that .7z and .rar was allowed.

Best regards,
Laurids   

[Garnett.Robert]

Hi Laurids,

 

Thankyou for that.

 

Kind regards

Rob

[Andrew Neil]

See also: https://community.st.com/t5/feedback-forum/please-support-zip-attachments/td-p/580074