Feature request: Overwrite or Rename if file already exists

[grinch843]

Can an option be added that if a file already exists you will get a pop-up asking to overwrite or rename the file instead of automatically renaming the file?

[MightyDrakeC]

I'd like to extend this request to be Overwrite, Rename, Save As Dialog, Cancel

[gyng]

Chrome supports it, but Firefox does not right now according to the support table on MDN.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/downloads/FilenameConflictAction

[Zwizzor]

Hey, it's been a year and a half and it still saves duplicates. Is this problem still impossible to solve? I would very much like to be able to skip duplicate files or at least get a prompt if the file exists already.

[gyng]

@Zwizzor unfortunately, Firefox still does not support this. Please follow https://github.com/gyng/save-in/issues/94 for any updates.

[KerfuffleV2]

@Zwizzor

In case it's still relevant for you or anyone else finding this issue, I finally got fed up and made a simple extension to listen for download events and automatically cancel ones that look like renamed duplicates (blah(1).txt for example.)

This seems to work well with the Save In addon. Note that if you have "show save dialog on failure" enabled, cancelled downloads will count as a failure and trigger this.

Repo: https://github.com/KerfuffleV2/webextension-cancel-duplicate-downloads/ AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cancel-duplicate-downloads/

[gyng]

@KerfuffleV2 thanks for this!