Difficulty changing article picture
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I notice this problem long time ago, but everything worked out finally; and I did not have precise description. Today, I can describe the problem I observed when I updated the top picture of the article All in One Toolchain for Article Writing with Visual Studio Code. In the article submission wizard, I first removed all uploaded files. Then I uploaded new files, not touching article text, but the file names were the same. After submission, I still saw the old picture. In second attempt, I noticed that the
imgelement was different: itssrcwas pointing not to the article directory, but some sub-directory (it's name made of several decimal digits). Apparently, is was some shadow copy of old .png file. On third attempt, I changedsrcto the name of the new file. After submission, I still saw old picture. On next attempt, I managed to fix the problem by giving the image file a new .png name, but it does not sound right. Thank you.—SA
Sergey A Kryukov
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I notice this problem long time ago, but everything worked out finally; and I did not have precise description. Today, I can describe the problem I observed when I updated the top picture of the article All in One Toolchain for Article Writing with Visual Studio Code. In the article submission wizard, I first removed all uploaded files. Then I uploaded new files, not touching article text, but the file names were the same. After submission, I still saw the old picture. In second attempt, I noticed that the
imgelement was different: itssrcwas pointing not to the article directory, but some sub-directory (it's name made of several decimal digits). Apparently, is was some shadow copy of old .png file. On third attempt, I changedsrcto the name of the new file. After submission, I still saw old picture. On next attempt, I managed to fix the problem by giving the image file a new .png name, but it does not sound right. Thank you.—SA
Sergey A Kryukov
The best thing to do is not delete images when uploading new ones. The system handles updates by placing them in a Working directory so that the original images are still available to the currently published version of your article. Once the new version is made public the images are swapped out.
cheers Chris Maunder
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The best thing to do is not delete images when uploading new ones. The system handles updates by placing them in a Working directory so that the original images are still available to the currently published version of your article. Once the new version is made public the images are swapped out.
cheers Chris Maunder
All right, thank you for the advice. If I have a change, I'll try that way. But frankly, it's not logical. With file systems, if you delete file and immediately copy another one under the same name, or if you copy without deletion, logically, results are the same, right? :-)
—SA
Sergey A Kryukov
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All right, thank you for the advice. If I have a change, I'll try that way. But frankly, it's not logical. With file systems, if you delete file and immediately copy another one under the same name, or if you copy without deletion, logically, results are the same, right? :-)
—SA
Sergey A Kryukov
You're forgetting that updates and existing articles must exist together. If you delete a file then you delete if from the current article. Current readers suddenly see broken images. When you upload a file it belongs to the new version of the article, which is not yet visible, and so the files are kept in a separate location. Deleting from the current and uploading a new doesn't not do a "delete and replace". You're doing a "delete and store in staging".
cheers Chris Maunder
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You're forgetting that updates and existing articles must exist together. If you delete a file then you delete if from the current article. Current readers suddenly see broken images. When you upload a file it belongs to the new version of the article, which is not yet visible, and so the files are kept in a separate location. Deleting from the current and uploading a new doesn't not do a "delete and replace". You're doing a "delete and store in staging".
cheers Chris Maunder
No, I'm not forgetting it. :-) It simply means that the operations should be presented differently. Just think about it. Isn't that obvious that all the operations should do the same? There is no difference between deleting, replacing, adding. All you do you do on a new version of the article, no matter what... —SA
Sergey A Kryukov