Force sharepoint to save files in directory

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I'd like to force sharepoint to save files in directory. Is there a way to do that? I think about this scenario: users upload files to some list / library in sharepoint and automatically or by pushing "publish" the files are copied to some local server's directory.

Edit: In other words i would like to connect sharepoint library with physical directory in server that runs IIS, so that files uploaded to library were seen in that folder.

I'm new to sharepoint.

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Your question is unclear are you trying to upload files to a document library or to the local file system of the server running IIS (web front end)? If the later this isn't supported or recommended in SharePoint and you should use the object model / Document Libraries to manipulate SharePoint. – Ken Henderson
SharePoint stores everything to Database. – Shoban
We wrote a powershell script to extract all files from a Site Collection to a file system for a client. This is an ad-hoc request that comes along every now and then. It can be sceduled to run at any time and extract the files - the "why" is unimportant. – Paul Leigh

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Most likely you don't want to do this. If you're doing it in order to access the files from other applications, or having them show up in a users home directory or something, you can just map the document library as a network drive/web folder.

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Are you talking about Remote BLOB Storage? I have not tried this and assume that RBS can be enabled for a Site level only and not for individual document libraries. If you want this for a particular doc library, you can write an event handler to save the uploaded documents to file system and then remove the uploaded file.