Title: Custom Filename
Last modified: October 9, 2017

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# Custom Filename

 *  Resolved [cenzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cenzi/)
 * (@cenzi)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-filename/)
 * I´d like each file I receive to have a prefix so I can organize my files better.
 * The only Info I´ve found on how to do this was here:
    [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6168476/custom-file-name-in-cforms-upload](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6168476/custom-file-name-in-cforms-upload)
 * But CformsII no longer has the .php´s that are referenced here. Any suggestions?

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 *  Plugin Author [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * (@bgermann)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-filename/#post-9568810)
 * You can find “remove persistent file storage (please use CFDB)” in the changelog
   for 14.14. So please use CFDB plugin, which has support for storing uploads in
   its database or [as a file](https://cfdbplugin.com/?page_id=794).
 *  Thread Starter [cenzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cenzi/)
 * (@cenzi)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-filename/#post-9569357)
 * Hey I just installed and activated it, yet when I go to the menu > contact form,
   it says “Please activate contact form 7 plugin.”
 * I deactivated the old cformsII and tried. Nothing.
    I tried to reinstall it. 
   deleting and reinstalling. Nothing
 * ¨Please activate contact form 7 plugin.¨
 *  Plugin Author [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * (@bgermann)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-filename/#post-9569439)
 * Please be sure not to use CFDB7, but [CFDB](https://cfdbplugin.com/).
 *  Thread Starter [cenzi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cenzi/)
 * (@cenzi)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-filename/#post-9569477)
 * okay. all is good.. you forgot to mention that I needed to install another plugin
   to use this….
 * OKAY… but I still think you misunderstood me. I just want to change the filename.
 * So when someone sends me: hardrockinbeat.mp3 it is saved as sept-harrcokinbeat.
   mp3
 * When I first installed the CFormsII, all the files had a node- prefix, and you
   taught ,e how to take it out. I just thought it would be simple to keep the noid
   prfix in, and find a way to change it.
 *  Plugin Author [bgermann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgermann/)
 * (@bgermann)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-filename/#post-9569530)
 * You do not have to install contact form 7 to use CFDB.
 * I understood you correctly. But as of version 14.14 cformsII does not save any
   uploaded files anymore. So to have a file saved, you have to use CFDB, which 
   by default only saves files to the MySQL database. However, you can build a custom
   file saving routine for it, which you can see in the first link given. Now it
   is up to you to program this routine to save the files with a prefix.

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