Media name suffixed with a timestamp - Can be removed?

[VincentF]

When I’m uploading a media via an Action, the media name get prefixed/suffixed with a timestamp.

Is there a way to control this behavior ? Is there a way to even avoid this behavior ? What happens in case there are name conflicts ?

[Isy]

Hi Vincent,

All media items in a media set have a path (essentially the file name) and these must be unique. If you upload a file with the same name as an existing media item, then the paths would be the same, and the existing media item would be overwritten with the new one. As a result, we include the timestamp in the path when uploading a media item via an action to ensure that files are unique and won’t overwrite other files in the media set.

There is no way to configure this, but we are looking at how we make the user experience with paths better.

If you’re using the path for an object property, you could split the string by the ‘-’ character and then use the original file name for eg. the title property, but this couldn’t be used for the primary key, as it wouldn’t necessarily be unique anymore.