Really now. So that means a lot of our images were probably overwritten.
Bummer.

But thank you for finding this out, Adam! Will update the settings.py file
accordingly.

Regards,

Joel

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Adam Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Joel,
>
> As for 2) I just checked this out on a local installation of Arches and
> then on a cloud installation that uses Amazon S3 for file storage (like
> your installation does).  On the local version, as Alexei mentioned, the
> file is automatically renamed, and Arches retrieves the path correctly.  On
> the S3 version I found that a new uploaded file overwrites an existing file
> in the bucket with the same name.  So, if I uploaded picture.jpg (picture
> of a dog) for "resource 1", and then uploaded picture.jpg (picture of
> a house) for "resource 2", then only one file (picture.jpg) exists in the
> bucket, and it is the house picture, and both resources use it.
>
> Luckily, I found this question (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10323241/django-storages-with-amazon-s3-prevent-overwriting)
> and the answer very easy.  Just add
> AWS_S3_FILE_OVERWRITE = False
> to your settings.py file and restart apache. When I did that, everything
> was solved. I'll update the documentation.
>
> Thanks for finding this problem!!
> Adam
>
> On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 9:42:43 PM UTC-6, Joel Aldor wrote:
>>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> I would like to report on two issues that are currently happening on our
>> Arches installation:
>>
>> 1.) When images shot in portrait orientation are uploaded on Arches they
>> show up in horizontal orientation (or 90 degs clockwise). How can we
>> correct this immediately?
>>
>> Example:
>> http://www.philippineheritagemap.org/reports/e8130ba7-7666-4325-9e7e-1f845cbab397
>>
>> 2.) Cameras would usually name image files as IMG0001 or DSC0001,
>> depending on the brand. If you upload the images using the same file name
>> as of a previously uploaded image with the same file name, it causes Arches
>> to display the previously uploaded image instead. I would advise our
>> volunteers to rename the file names of their images first based on the name
>> of the place where the image was shot, but this might not be followed in
>> the long run as our numbers grow, and I see this as quite an impractical
>> approach. Is there a way for Arches to automatically rename the image file
>> to ensure that it does not conflict with other images?
>>
>> Example:
>> http://www.philippineheritagemap.org/reports/086dac6a-cc3b-44df-8d99-f6783d718570
>> - this report for San Jose Cathedral in Romblon displays images coming from
>> Silay City.
>>
>> Please let us know how we can fix this. Thanks!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Joel
>>
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