Title: Upload image with same name doesn’t work
Last modified: May 23, 2017

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# Upload image with same name doesn’t work

 *  [aceone999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aceone999/)
 * (@aceone999)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-image-with-same-name-doesnt-work/)
 * Upload different image with same name doesn’t work. Nothing happens.

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 *  Plugin Author [minnur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minnur/)
 * (@minnur)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-image-with-same-name-doesnt-work/#post-9161323)
 * [@aceone999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aceone999/) have you enabled
   the Drive API ? Could you please provide all the steps you’ve done to configure
   the plugin ?
 *  Thread Starter [aceone999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aceone999/)
 * (@aceone999)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-image-with-same-name-doesnt-work/#post-9161657)
 * Installed the plugin.
    Turn off: Prepend plugin name to file names. Turn on: 
   URL Plugin Everything else is off.
 * Edit a page.
 * Add some images from url.
 * Some Images have the same name image.png or image.jpg
 * If I try to add another image with same name it only shows me the other one already
   upload with the same name.
    No upload.
 *  Thread Starter [aceone999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aceone999/)
 * (@aceone999)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-image-with-same-name-doesnt-work/#post-9161707)
 * If you upload with WordPress core it renames files with same name, like image-
   1.jpg image-2.jpg
 *  Plugin Author [minnur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/minnur/)
 * (@minnur)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-image-with-same-name-doesnt-work/#post-9161815)
 * [@aceone999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aceone999/) thanks for the detailed
   report. Yes, that is how the plugin works. It tried to reuse already uploaded
   files and it checks it by file names. I agree this is not effective way to detect
   duplicates.
 * I have full-time job so please do not expect this to be done very soon. This 
   will be fixed when I will have more time.
 *  Thread Starter [aceone999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aceone999/)
 * (@aceone999)
 * [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-image-with-same-name-doesnt-work/#post-9163963)
 * Maybe it’s possible to call the wordpress core function instead for the file 
   saving process. Don’t know just a guess.

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 * Last reply from: [aceone999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aceone999/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upload-image-with-same-name-doesnt-work/#post-9163963)
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