In testing my Photo Organizing Script, I noticed something scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I move an image into a folder where another DIFFERENT image has the SAME name, the move function overwrites previous image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a pretty serious issue, since it will result in data loss<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s time to write a function to detect for this and rename the file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In testing my Photo Organizing Script, I noticed something scary. If I move an image into a folder where another…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ruby","wpcat-5-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iheinrich.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\tdef move_safely (file, folderName)\n\n\t if File.exists?(folderName+\"\/\"+file)\n\t puts \"the file exists and should not be overwritten!\"\n\n\t #rename the file\n\t #generate an 8 char random string to append to the file name.\n\t random8 = (0...8).map{(65+rand(26)).chr}.join\n\n\t #break up the file into file and file type. The result of this is an array\n\t breakUp = file.split(\".\")\n\n\t #add the fixin's to the random8 string\n\t randomize = \"_\"+random8+\".\"\n\n\t #insert it into the array\n\t breakUp.insert(1,randomize)\n\n\t #convert the array into a file string\n\t newFileName = breakUp.join\n\n\t File.rename(file,newFileName)\n\n\t file = newFileName\n\n\t else\n\t puts \"the file doesn't exist\"\n\t end\n\n\tFileUtils.move file, folderName\n\n\tend\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"