[SOLVED, pebkac] Bug: Attachments get overwritten if new attachment has same name

[camoz]

Update: It was my fault, please disregard this thread. Title is wrong.

Hi,

I just noticed that attachments can get overwritten, without warning

It can be reproduced by adding a new card with an attachment, then adding another card with an attachment named like the first attachment.

Now I wonder if adding/importing a whole deck can batch-overwrite attachments from other decks.

Also, apparently the attachments from imported decks get thrown together in the media directory, which IMO is kind of ugly and destined to fail at some point. I realize this is not a trivial problem to solve, but I think something should be done about it.

Or perhaps/hopefully I’m missing something?

Edit: I didn’t lose any data, I just want to report the issue.

[Keks]

Naming convention for media file?

Hi! is there any naming convention to make filenames inside collection.media unique? If I understand it correctly, the structure is flat, i. e. I cannot create directories. At the moment I am using the add-on name as a prefix. Is there a better way to do this? Cheers, Guido

@Danika_Dakika

If you attach a file with the same name (from inside the app), and it’s the same file – Anki recognizes that and doesn’t re-add the file to collection.media.

If you attach a file with the same name, and it’s a different file – Anki appends an identifying hash to the filename to make it unique in collection.media, like -9d14e6116a6b19e3a21b29a10edf36b7097216ca.

[camoz]

Ok, so it turns out it was my fault (no surprise I guess). I was playing around with subfolders in the media folders and… it’s complicated to explain but some experiment has led me to beleive that attachments can get overwritten. Sorry for the noise!

Thanks for the link, good to know.

[camoz]

Side note: I just discovered that the subfolders in the media collection folder are not synced, so I will rethink how I will do what I want.