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No more automatic renaming of files about to download
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Hi there,
so previously Vivaldi would automatically rename any file I'd try to download if a file with that same name already existed in the target folder - very helpful when downloading screenshots from your Steam Content page, cause they are uniformly and annoyingly named download.jpg. Vivaldi would then add a " ([previous number+1])" to the new file - which it doesn't do any more. Did I change an option I'm not aware of or was that functionality officially scrapped? Can I somehow reenable it?
Cheers!
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@gkyl See Settings, Downloads:
Automatically Avoid Target Filename Collisions When Choosing File Save as -
That's not an option I have, though. There are only "Save Files to Default Location Without Asking", "Update Default Location When Choosing Save as Location", "Display Downloads Automatically" and "Notify on Completed Downloads".
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@gkyl Already available in the Snapshot builds. No doubt it will come soon to the Stable builds.
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Alright, I'll wait for that to be part of the stable version then. Thanks! I wonder why they removed that functionality to begin with, though. Did the implementation change (and hence the new option)?
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@gkyl Users requested the change, then other users complained about the lack of an option, so they added the checkbox to make the new behaviour optional.
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Oh, I see! Thanks for shedding some light on that!
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@Pesala said in No more automatic renaming of files about to download:
will come soon to the Stable builds
After 2 weeks: When will this happen?
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@arganto said in No more automatic renaming of files about to download:
When will this happen?
I guess with 7.1 Stable.
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I guess with 7.1 Stable.
Any gut feeling? This month, 2025, 2026?
Such a change without directly (or quickfix) of an option is really a bad idea. I need it every day and I have already overwritten very important files.
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@arganto
Hi, many users complain why these annoying (1) (2) files are created so the Vivaldi team changed it.
Now other users complain why they changed it, this will never end.
7.0 was published October 24, 2024, the stable release cycle is about 6 Weeks.Cheers, mib
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@arganto I can not tell if you get a 7.1 from Santa
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@arganto said in No more automatic renaming of files about to download:
I need it every day and I have already overwritten very important files.
The whole point of the setting is to give you a prompt asking if you want to overwrite an existing file. If you've done that it means you've explicitly chosen 'Yes' in the dialog.
And in Windows at least, the dialog is by default set to the 'No' option which means hitting Enter (or Space) will select 'No'. To choose 'Yes' you have to explicitly click it.
Doesn't make sense to me why someone would do that.
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@mib2berlin said in No more automatic renaming of files about to download:
Now other users complain why they changed it, this will never end.
I didn't request that there is only one option or only one truth. But if there is such a big breaking change is implemented, because some users requesting it the other way round, there should always be a direct way to choose the option old or new, this or that.
@Pathduck said in No more automatic renaming of files about to download:
If you've done that it means you've explicitly chosen 'Yes' in the dialog.
And this means what? You know muscle memory. And you know how fast a tab+enter is used. Implement such a big change in behavior and later on say, that the user is of course the only responsible to rename now every file manually and never will do a tab+enter because if, he is just to stupid for the world. Come on.
