Files uploaded through File Manager can not be linked to in FCKeditor

[vaughnt]

Hello-

1.0.8 install on linux/apache. Here is the problem I am seeing...

I can use File Manager to upload some files to /uploads/mydir/

When I go into FCKeditor, highlight some text, and click the make link button, and then click "Browse Server", "mydir" doesn't show as a resource type. I only get the four standard choices, File, Image, Flash & Media.

Any directories I created myself under /uploads/ are invisible when browsing the server in FCKeditor.  Dirs have 777 permissions, and files have 664. I have chown/chgrp'ed files to be owned by accountname, or by apache, to no avail. Creating a subdir in /uploads/files/ works fine however, and I can link to files within that dir.

Should I be able to link to files in directories I create directly off of /uploads?
Or can I only link to files in the four main resource dirs, and their subdirs?

I am asking because my client swears this used to work... he has many files in subdirs directly off of /uploads , and has various pages already linking to files in those subdirs. To alter those files locations would mean having to edit a lot of content, which I'd rather not do.

[Greg]

Take a look at this post.
Your directory 'mydir' can be a sub-directory of one of the standard directories i.e.  uploads/file/mydir and you will be able to locate it from fckeditor.

[vaughnt]

So in other words, it's not a bug, it's a feature?