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Hi Pritish

I had the same problem. The problem is that the stored_file class will not tell you what the file directory is.  It obtains it from file_storage class - which gets it when it is instantiated by the core function get_file_storage (in moodlelib.php).

So to get the file path given a stored_file object $file what I've done is this:

//this is the same code as in get_file_storage

if (isset($CFG->filedir)) {
$filedir = $CFG->filedir;
} else {
$filedir = $CFG->dataroot.'/filedir';
}

//this copied from the protected function get_content_file_location

$contenthash = $file->get_contenthash();
$l1 = $contenthash[0].$contenthash[1];
$l2 = $contenthash[2].$contenthash[3];

$filepath = $filedir.'/'.$l1.'/'.$l2.'/'.$contenthash;

But I'm not totally happy with this as I don't like relying on the File API continuing to use that way of determining the file directory.

SO - the other way I can think of would be to use stored_file -> get_content_file_handle() to get a file handle and use that or if I have to have a path then using get_content which gets the file contents and then writing them to a temp file - and then I've got my path. (Or better use copy_content_to($templfilepath)).

Justin Wyllie