Title: disabling upload filename changing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# disabling upload filename changing

 *  [dchang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dchang/)
 * (@dchang)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-upload-filename-changing/)
 * Hi all,
 * I was wondering is there any way to stop WordPress from changing the filenames
   on uploads done thru the write post panel? It’s removing any extra periods in
   filenames which I realize isn’t ideal to have but would like to preserve them
   for file version numbers. For example, “file-version-1.0.zip” becomes “file-version-
   10.zip” once uploaded. Do I need to just ftp instead? Any help is appreciated,
   thanks.
 * -Dave

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 *  [letssurf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/letssurf/)
 * (@letssurf)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-upload-filename-changing/#post-548887)
 * any luck with this? I have the same problem.
 *  [osterday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/osterday/)
 * (@osterday)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-upload-filename-changing/#post-548896)
 * I’m also interested if there’s a fix for this.

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 * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabling-upload-filename-changing/#post-548896)
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