Hi, why all the resources downloaded by means MM2 (pdf, word) are renamed with a different name (e.g. 1basdawia213414.pdf) instead of the original one?
Thanks and Regards
Original resources filename
Number of replies: 11Re: Original resources filename
Hi,
files are stored using a hash in a "filepool" directory, this ensures no name collisions/conflicts, is very similar to what Moodle (web version) does.
Is that creating any problem/issue?
Regards, Juan
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Hi Juan, I understood the reason but our students are not happy because if they download the resources into an External App (in order to take notes on them) they don't see the name of the files. This cause to re-launch from MM, find the resource and open it again with the external app.
Regards,Claudio
Re: Original resources filename
Hi,
Yes for us it is a real problem. We must discourage the use of the mobile application. We have over a hundred students using Moodle with a tablet. They download the PDF and DOC then annotate and complete. The loss of the filename makes this operation impossible and transforms there working folder a incomprehensible list of files. Can you fix this?
Re: Original resources filename
Hi Sylvain,
we are having the same problem. A lot of our students prefer to use the web portal instead of the app due to the file names.
It is not a bug (that requires fix) but it is a developer choice.
Best Regards,
Claudio
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Hi,
we discussed this some time ago, I've opened this issue https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MOBILE-1408, we'll try to fix this in the short-term roadmap.
Juan
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Hi Juan,
many thanks. This would be amazing!
Regards,
Claudio
Re: Original resources filename
Hello All
do you know when this bug will be solved? We really need it. Hope you can fix this problem.
Thanks.
Beveri
Re: Original resources filename
Hi,
this has been solved for Moodle Mobile 2.9 that will be released in a few days (before the end of the month).
Juan
Re: Original resources filename
Hi Juan,
many thanks for the update.
Regards,
Claudio
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Thanks a lot.
It's better but you can still do better.
With Android, the downloaded files goes in the /Android/data/com.moodle.moodlemobile/ folder. Hard to recover.
What would be really interesting: we can download the file in the /download/ folder with the exact original name (no hash). Maybe add a "Download" button under "Open file" ?
Re: Original resources filename
Hi,
unfortunately that's not possible, we need the hash part to identify the files and also we cannot download files outside the app "file area".
Regards, Juan