Status of legacy files on Parse S3

[hashmapped]

What will happen to file migration? I can't really find instructions on how to transfer/migrate over files to your own bucket.

[gfosco]

We'll be working on a plan for this. Right now when you migrate data, the files stay on Parse's S3 bucket, but parse-server knows how to continue serving them..

[shahzeb1]

It would be so nice to have a config setting with our own S3 settings which end up getting used for file uploads.

[hashmapped]

So we are assured that file migration will be happening? So that we can continue develop using PFFile before migration?

[franksierra]

@hashmapped Yes

[chrisfoulds]

Without PFFile migration my apps are dead in the water, please prioritise this as it would allow me to migrate alot sooner

[chrisfoulds]

So if I do a database migration right now, when a user creates a new PFFile - will the MongoDB entry just point to a new file hosted by Parse or will something else happen ?

[gfosco]

New files uploaded to parse-server are hosted in GridStore(Mongo), only files uploaded through api.parse.com are still hosted by Parse. We are definitely going to solve this, and an awesome engineer here is working on an great update.

[pungme]

+1 we really need this. Do we at least have a timeframe for this? like when it likely will be available?

[Abderezai]

Also would be good if the client SDK can directly upload to S3 without hoping on first to parse server, abstracted in the client so we can still use the parse file api.