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Forcing Unique File Names

 		6/22/2006 10:10:58 AM
ASPRunnerPro General questions
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 Martyn author

Iam trying to build something that will stop users uploading to the server with the same file names. The system all works but I have just thought that if users send a document to the server with the same filename it will overwrite the old document. Is there a way to make it create a new file name using something like asp upload. I found this but not sure what page or where to put the command to make it work.
Forcing Unique File Names
By default, AspUpload will overwrite existing files in the upload directory. If this is undesirable, the component can be configured to generate unique names for the files being uploaded to prevent overwriting existing files in the upload directory. This is done by setting UploadManager's OverwriteFiles property to False before calling Save:
Upload.OverwriteFiles = False
Thanks for any help you can give on this
Martyn
Sergey Kornilov admin 6/22/2006

I'm not sure why you need to use AspUpload but with ASPRunnerPro you can add a timestamp to filename so each file has a unique name.
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 		Martyn author 6/24/2006

Me neither, was just something I was looking at but your idea worked and does the job for me. Thanks for that and a brilliant product.