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[Cecilia Vela Gurovic <1873118@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are using two different systems to export files in html/leap2A (I'm
thinking of pdf as a special case of html)

1. Folder structure, as it is in the original account (old system)
2. Single folder, having all files inside one folder adding the artefact id at the beginnigng of the file name so there are no clashes

The problem with this is that we have most files duplicated, making the export file almost double the size it should be.
We need to decide which system we want to keep, for that we need to consider:

If we want to have only the single folder approach, we will be missing
the folder structure. This is what we use when importing leap2A and when
viewing the site as html. We would need to display all files inside the
same folder that can be confusing to the user, specially if there are
lots of files. We would need to remove the code that already creates the
folder structure, also the one that imports this structure and fix the
links to point to the correct place.

If we want to have the older system, the folder structure, we would need
to adapt the code that looks for the files as id+name to looke for them
in the folder structure.

I'm not sure why we chose to have a new system, but we need to define
which one is best.

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

Title:
  Files doubling up in an export

Status in Mahara:
  In Progress

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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