Replacing files without changing the links

[madduck]

Hello,

I just sent a link to a static file (PDF) in my OpenCloud to a group of people, only to realise that I made a small mistake the second after I hit "send". I had to make a change, upload the new file, and send out a new email with the new link.

I am aware that I could have shared a link to a folder, and then been able to update the file, but that seems overkill for a single file.

Would it be conceivable to be able to replace a file in such a way that the share link of the previous file continues to work, but yields the new file instead?

Thanks,
martin

[JammingBen]

You could just upload the new PDF file with the same name as the old one. In the following dialog, you then choose the "Replace" option. It will overwrite the file but keep the old content as a version. So you could roll back at any time. The share link would then always point to the current version.

[madduck]

You could just upload the new PDF file with the same name as the old one. In the following dialog, you then choose the "Replace" option. It will overwrite the file but keep the old content as a version. So you could roll back at any time. The share link would then always point to the current version.

This seems to work, thank you. It's a shame there is no option in the UI either to replace a file, or to modify the filename of a file that's to be uploaded. Currently, I need to first rename the file locally on my disk before uploading it.

[JammingBen]

The "Keep both" option in the conflict dialog will upload the file with a new name.

[madduck]

The "Keep both" option in the conflict dialog will upload the file with a new name.

Yeah, but I want the other thing: I want to upload a file foo2 and have the option to then replace foo with it. Rather than first having to copy foo2 to a local temp directory to be able to rename it to foo, and then upload that just to be able to replace the existing file.

[JammingBen]

Okay yeah, for that you will have to do it like you mentioned, there's no shortcut unfortunately.

[madduck]

Can this be considered a feature request then? ;)

[JammingBen]

To be honest, I'm having a hard time thinking about how to solve this properly technically and UX wise. But you can always create a feature request in the Web repository, maybe someone else form the team as an idea.

[madduck]

To be honest, I'm having a hard time thinking about how to solve this properly technically and UX wise. But you can always create a feature request in the Web repository, maybe someone else form the team as an idea.

I'll have a go.

[madduck]

I mean, the alternative is to provide a way to edit the target of share links…

[madduck]

I created opencloud-eu/web#2179, as well as the related opencloud-eu/web#2175 and opencloud-eu/web#2176.