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[Aaron Wells <1521253@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Melvin,

You are correct, that's functionality Mahara is currently lacking, and
it's something that it would be nice to have, for the specific reason
you described. Especially since we allow this kind of edit-once-change-
everywhere functionality for virtually every other type of Mahara
artefact.

If we were to add this ability, it would also be good to retain a
history of the previous versions of the file, viewable in the artefact
details section. I think in an academic environment that would probably
be useful to provide an audit trail. On the downside, it would also use
up extra user quota space, and add a lot of code complexity, so maybe
that would be better saved for a follow-up patch.

Cheers,
Aaron

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Tags added: fileupload

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1521253

Title:
  Allow users to overwrite/update files with same name

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is actually an improvement request.

  Currently in all versions, if a user wants to update or overwrite a
  file with the same name, the system simply adds the file with a .1, .2
  at the end. So, if I have "file1.png" in a page and I want to update
  it, I have to delete the old file, upload a new one and redo the link
  in my page.

  Unless I'm doing something wrong, Mahara should have the same function
  as Moodle in this case. The user is prompted if he/she wants to
  overwrite/update or rename the file. That way, all links to this file
  are updated in the pages.

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