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[Aaron Wells <1202701@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marylena,

There's no way currently to copy files from your "personal" file area
into the "group" area (or, for that matter, the institution area or the
site area). The best you can do is download your files from Mahara, and
re-upload them into the group.

My brainstorming on the subject:

It sounds like a good idea. I think the main complication, as with so
many things, would be figuring out a good user interface for it. Perhaps
the best approach would be to add a "link" to your personal file areas
into the group file chooser. Sort of like the "parent directory" "link"
that you see if you navigated into a subfolder when picking a file.

There's also the question of access control. I think we could avoid all
kinds of sticky issues on that if we simply give the group its own copy
of the file, rather than making it use the original file. (Though on the
other hand, this does lose the edit-once-update-everywhere
functionality). Letting the group have its own copy, essentially makes
this a shortcut for downloading the file and re-uploading it... so
perhaps it would make sense putting the link for it down by the upload
button.

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Title:
  Copy personal files into group files

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  originally reported as part of bug #1201907. Discussion at
  https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5568

  Lack of access to personal mahara files from the group files page. I’d
  like to easily transfer a file from my mahara files, rather than have
  to upload it again to the group.

  ------------

  If you only want to use your personal files on a group page, you can
  do so as you have access to your personal files. But I read your
  wishlist item as wanting to be able to copy your personal files into
  the group area.

  Can you please confirm that this is the case?

  Thank you
  Kristina

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