Duplicate Assets

LarryL

I didn't think this was possible, but we've come across a couple of folders with duplicate file names in the same folder.

We have an automated process that captures assets into mediabin. Somewhere along the way a user made a change to a file already ingested in to mediabin and re-uploaded it. Rather than overwrite, or disallow this Mediabin recorded two assets with the same name in the same container.

Each asset has multiple revisions. Each asset has a different GUID. Both have the same name. Both indexed externally (no references)

20060604_BB440_00_06_00_000005.PDF ({483CBBD4-43C5-4A60-A1B0-962E5A35054C} has 2 revision)

20060604_BB440_00_06_00_000005.PDF ({3FA3BBDC-6ED7-4D80-A02A-DA1004AFED8F} has 4 revisions)

Both contained in the same guid container {05792366-7D47-429F-9A9E-3D0572A74C63}

How is this possible? Is there a setting in Mediabin that can prevent this from happening in the future?


Thanks

lyman

What version of MediaBin are you running?

Basically we only allow duplicate asset names within Deleted Items or its subcontainers. That is because we cannot stop someone from deleting an asset simply because another asset of that name has already been deleted.

because of this special case the non-duplication of filenames is not implemented as a database constraint but enforced by the various requests that manipulate data. That is to say, that there may be some obscure route that somehow slipped through.

Please escalata through support especially if you have a scenario that reproduces the problem.

Thanks,

Lyman Hurd