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Allow overriding previous uploads

Open nemobis opened this issue 10 years ago • 4 comments

As requested by phe: at least admins will need an option to delete all files, reupload images and overwrite all metadata for older uploads. The early imports from Google Books have partial metadata coverage and are sometimes very hard to read due to low resolution.

nemobis avatar Aug 09 '14 11:08 nemobis

If there is a db tracking upload, you could restart uploading of all items previous a given timestamp but can the bot upload over existing items ? (delete all then upload again). And yes allowing an uploader to manually reupload will be handy too..

phil-el avatar Aug 09 '14 11:08 phil-el

The default behavior of item.upload() in the internetarchive lib is to clobber a file if it already exists, so @phil-el, yes, the bot should be able to upload over existing items without too much trouble. Though, I'm not very familiar with the BUB code base.

jjjake avatar Jan 11 '16 19:01 jjjake

How is this not contrary to the fundamental purpose of an archive? Existing items should not be "clobbered", just given some sort of lower relevance among query results. Add annotations to the old items for this effect, sure, but never delete them.

LeadSongDog avatar Jun 09 '16 19:06 LeadSongDog

This is not about items but files. Lower quality copies of the identical same images, or broken tar files, don't need to be preserved.

nemobis avatar Jun 09 '16 19:06 nemobis