topic Re: Single file drag-and-drop upload, appears twice in Alfresco Forum

Single file drag-and-drop upload, appears twice

davidraines — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 23:42:40 GMT

We are getting reports from our users (and seem to be able to confirm them) that users are using the "Drag-and-Drop" feature in a subfolder off of a Site's Document Library. When they drag the single file up, the file then appears twice. Once with its normal name, then once again a "-1" appended t

Re: Single file drag-and-drop upload, appears twice

afaust — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 07:42:14 GMT

I haven't seen that particular behaviour yet, but I am aware of a known issue using Drag&Drop in the Edge browser where multiple instances of the same file appear in the upload dialog. In that case, Alfresco simply forgot to implement an "already-added-check", and due to some other particularities of the Drag&Drop API, the operation to add a file to the list is called multiple times.

I have corrected that issue for one of my customers and hope the patch makes it through Support without much delay. In my investigation of the code base, I have not found where the name might be appended with a "-1" suffix. Unfortunately searching for an issue with "-1" in JIRA (in combination with drag&drop) did not produce any meaningful results

Re: Single file drag-and-drop upload, appears twice

jpotts — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 03:21:39 GMT

What browser version and platform is being used by the users who are seeing this problem?

Also, the usual suggestions of restarting browsers, clearing cache, disabling pop-ups, etc., applies.