Avoid double uploading the same file
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Aaron Kreji
for big projects, uploading multiple files of the same content would reduce productivity and is a hindrance to organizational skills. particularly when one is working on tens of files when it is hard to notice if a particularly file already exists in a project. double uploading files means more reading and reduce processing speed
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Willem
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This is done! https://lateral.canny.io/changelog/duplicate-detection
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Willem
in progress
Hey everyone! Excited to announce that this is nearly done.
When you upload documents Lateral will now check if each document is already in your workspace. If it is it will use that document instead of uploading the same one again.
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Reia Anquet
Willem: Great news!
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Tuhin Mallick
Really helpful
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Willem
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We are currently looking into this and how difficult it would be!
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Willie Knoetze
Willem: Wonderful! It might help to consider the likelihood that when one user uploads a file twice, that document would have the same filename. Also, if projects could draw from the "all documents" record instead of feeding into it, the need for duplicate files (and replication of work) could be eliminated.
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Willem
Thanks for your feedback Aaron! This should definitely be possible. Potentially difficult to identify duplicated before processing though.