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Dropped files that are named same in sub-folders skipped?

See original GitHub issue

Using dashboard plugin, I see that it parses the sub-folders if I drop a folder (is there a limit to how many sub-folders deep it will do??) I noticed that it won’t show the files in the UI of sub-folders if it finds the names are the same.

I do notice that on the file-added event it does know about that file but UI never shows it.

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Created 4 years ago
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goto-bus-stopcommented, May 29, 2019

Is there a limitation on how many levels deep of sub-folders is supported?

We recurse into subfolders, so there should be no practical limit. (unless you manage to blow the stack by going thousands of layers deep 😆 )

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goto-bus-stopcommented, May 29, 2019

Are only the names the same or are they the same file (same content, date etc) in two separate folders?

Files are assigned IDs by Uppy based on their name, modified date, and size. These IDs must be unique, if two files have the same name/date/size they only one of them will be added. This is due to internal limitations that are hard to change.

We recently discussed changing the ID generation to include the folder names when you drop a folder into Uppy, so that you can add multiple identical files if they are in different folders. This should be coming up quite soon after some of the existing PRs fixing .relativePath properties are merged.