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Overwrite files when uploading new files with the same name

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jkdude

Community Member, 19 Posts

21 April 2015 at 11:39am

Hi. One of our client's CMS has been set up so that when a file with a duplicate filename is uploaded, an incremented number is appended to the end of the filename and it uploads it automatically without the overwrite option.

They've asked us to revert it back to having the overwrite option pop up again. Anyone know how it was done in the first place so I can reverse the process.

Cheers,
JK

Devlin

Community Member, 344 Posts

22 April 2015 at 2:20am

# replace files instead of versioning
Upload:
  replaceFile: true
# show an overwrite warning
UploadField:
  defaultConfig:
    overwriteWarning: true

... or per instance ...

$uf = new UploadField();
$uf->upload->setReplaceFile(true);
$uf->setOverwriteWarning(true);

Maybe it would be prudent for you to set up some permssions for your files because clients sometimes don't know if a particular file is safe to be replaced.

jkdude

Community Member, 19 Posts

23 April 2015 at 2:43pm

Great. Thanks for that.

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