My original request was going to be having the ability to host the assets outside of site root & archive root altogether. I had added extra drive space on a separate mount for this purpose with a folder hierarchy to match the structure of the Web sites and blogs outside of the MT structure. I did this without looking into the folder path part of the MT asset management. I saw this was problematic from other post and would be close to having assets available for the whole site.

I this could become possible it would be easier to move the assets from one server to another if necessary since the path structure wouldn't change much.

I looked at assett.pm and saw where the paths were set but I wouldn't know how to go about changing that and I saw somewhere someone stated it would be best done with a plug-in.

Another suggestion would be having the choice of creating a folder for each user and then a video, image, audio, & document folder underneath their user folder just like when you create a system user in UNIX/Linux would be cool

The advantage to this would be that after a while it could become a performance issue if all the assets are in one of a few directories. Though I guess the database can handle all those files in one directory OK if the assets are tagged. From the admin side creating a directory structure as a setting would help.

Now-a-days with how-to-videos and everyone having access to some form of digital imaging and used to posting all forms of data/assets all over making assets easier to trace on the admin side would help quite a bit.

For now I'll make that disk part of my total disk usage for my site instead of a separate mount so I will not waste the space.

I hope a setting for creating asset folders ahead of time & for each user is feasible, thanks for your time!