Hi there,

 

I have a question similar to http://cutesoft.net/forums/thread/71622.aspx

 

The following:

 

I need to store the location of an uploaded file in a database. I access the FileName property of the uploaded file as such:

 

 The problem with this is however that this property contains the original name of the file, and not the name of the file after is has been persisted to the location as set in the SaveDirectory property. No problem in case of unique uploads.

 

However, in case of a duplicate upload the file in the SaveDirectory location gets renamed by the component. A timestamp is appended to the file name. The FileName property still contains the original name though.

 

Obviously I need the name of the persisted file. How can I access this?

 

Thanks and regards,

Nico 

 

 

Hi snaack,

 

For now can not get the new name of the duplicate upload the file.

 

 

Regards,

 

Ken 

Alright, thanks for your swift reply Ken. I will script a workaround for this. 

 

To further clarify myself, consider this situation:

 

File "abc.jpg" gets uploaded from computer A. It is persisted as "abc.jpg" and the value of the FileName-property is "abc"jpg".

File "abc.jpg" gets uploaded from computer B. Since a file named "abc.jpg" already exists on the server, this duplicate file is persisted as "abc_201129120824.jpg" (or something like that). The value of the FileName-property, however, is "abc.jpg" and points to the first file, not to this one.

 

To me, this behavior seems unintended. It is unpractical at minimum to be forced to script a workaround for this.

 

Do you consider this to be a bug, and will this be fixed in a future release?? 

 

Regards,

Nico 

Hi Ken,

 

 For the sake of other users facing the same problem, here is my (incomplete) solution:

 

- Get the FilePath property. This contains the full path of the uploaded file in the temporary folder

- Get the FileName property. This contains the original filename 

- Check it a file with the name as the value of the FileName property already exists in the SaveFolder

- If so - copy the file from the temporary directory to the SaveFolder with  a new unique name

- Else, do nothing, you can use the FileName property / file gets properly uploaded

 

Note: the ASPUpload component also persists the uploaded file in the SaveFolder using a unique filename in case of a duplicate.  If you wish to delete this (obsolete) file, perhaps you could do some magic with the timestamp of files in the SaveFile location. I didn't.

 

My script looks something like this: 

Regards,

Nico