Posting Message with Attachments Fix

[Jordan]

If I am posting a message with attachments and one of the file names has already been used it comes back saying one of the files names has already been used and I need to rename the file.  I hit the back button where it says "go back" and rename the file.  When I try and post the message again it comes back telling me the message has already been posted and will not post it.  I then have to get out and redo the entire message, not a big deal if the message is short but a pain if it is long (unless I remember to copy it).  I don't know if others have run into this but was wondering if this is fixable?

[thelews]

Apparently not.  It been brought up before by others.

[49er]

Happens to me as well. Whenever I post an attachment and that message come up, I copy what I have typed, change the attachments name,close the forum's web page and start over pasting my message into a new post.

John

[Peter van Es]

To avoid this, plan ahead. Prior to uploading, rename your photo to a guaranteed unique name: use your forum name (e.g. 49er), add the date, 20120127, and then add the rest of the picture name.

E.g. 280SL.jpg (which already exists) becomes 49er20120127_280SL.jpg

You'll have no problems no more. And no, this is regrettably not easy to fix, and I have looked into it in a lot of detail.

Peter

[Jordan]

Thanks Peter.  I figured if it wasn't an easy fix I would just do as you suggested and rename all attachments to something unique.

[twistedtree]

At the risk of being an arm-chair programmer.....

Can't the web site rename the files to something unique on up-load?  Perhaps pre-pending a time stamp or similar to the file name?

And in the mean time while we are renaming all our files, what's the scope of uniqueness?  Global across all uploaded files for all users?  Unique for a single user?

Thanks,

Peter

[Peter van Es]

And no, this is regrettably not easy to fix, and I have looked into it in a lot of detail.

You know me. If I could fix it, I would. Just trust me on this one - it would affect the software in too many places. I'm looking into an alternative but it's not seamless.

This forum software requires uniqueness across ALL files... hence my longstanding recommendation to add your username and a date (see this: http://www.sl113.org/FAQ/items/FAQ-Images.html since november 2008).