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[Bug 1873118] Re: Files doubling up in an export

 

The problem with this is if you have large files then it doubles up the
size of the export zip which makes things take longer both exporting and
importing

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

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

** Changed in: mahara
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Cecilia Vela Gurovic (ceciliavg)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873118

Title:
  Files doubling up in an export

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When doing a full export we can get files doubled up appearing in
  export_info/files/ directory and also subdirectories under this
  directory.

  It looks like if the file is used in a page / block it gets put here
  but at the same time the Files area of the user's Content section is
  added in with the same folder structure.

  So, for example if I add a coverimage, img1.jpg, to a page it gets
  saved in the 'Cover images' folder in files.

  When I export the user I get a copy of img1.jpg in export_info/files/
  directory because of it's association to the exported page and another
  copy in export_info/files/Cover images/ because of it's relation to
  the files directory.

  we used to export files in their directories to avoid name clashes -
  but now that we export files prefixed with their fileid we don't need
  to worry about that so we should export all files into
  export_info/files/ directory without bothering with the subdirectories
  and have the generated files html page point to export_info/files/
  instead

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