I’ve noticed recently that the filenames for downloaded skp files from the forum change from what the uploader called them to a series of nonsense numbers. I find this very confusing and annoying at the same time to try and locate a file on my downloads list. I’m sure others don’t agree with this somewhat weird behaviour too.
The whole point of giving a file a name is to make it identifiable, I’d rather it be kept the same, especially if you wish to re-upload a file, it only makes sense to change it back to what the uploader named it in the first instance! (sigh)
For example “Double import.skp”
Changes to “44aad6f5217ce7228d5ec8b02e8b09ec2c59c724.skp”
It’s the SHA hash of the original filename, which is evidently their database key for storing the file. But why it is suddenly leaking out as the name of your download only discourse knows!
Similar to DaveR, here’s my downloads showing the issue, all the highlighted came from this forum and had different names initially. I had deleted lots already to avoid the confusion. Note there is also a .DWG file showing the behaviour too:
Lastly, here’s a .SKP file for any testing if needed The name changer.skp (173.7 KB)
Thank you very much, to everyone for their input on this.
It’s working ok on my phone, for new .skp files that I haven’t tried already with it.
Although “the name changer” listed above still exhibits the issue?