{"id":39073,"date":"2023-04-18T16:55:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39073"},"modified":"2024-10-21T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:14:10","slug":"duplicate-safari-downloads-replacing-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/18\/duplicate-safari-downloads-replacing-files\/","title":{"rendered":"“Duplicate” Safari Downloads Replacing Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

jmhbpc<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Not sure when the feature started in Safari wherein duplicate downloads, within close proximity in time, would be replaced by the latest download…<\/p>\n

But I have noticed a bit of a flaw in that feature.<\/p>\n

Example: When downloading zipped music files at Bandcamp a zip archive of the same name can replace a previous version of the same name: even though its contents are different.<\/p>\n

For my example the following can occur: A zip file with my preferred aiff files was deleted when accidentally downloading the same album in a different file format not preferred (mp3)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been seeing this happen for years when testing downloads of my apps and sometimes when downloading photos. Coalescing identical files makes some sense, but it’s confusing and could delete important data if the files are not actually the same.<\/p>\n

Marc Z<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This has definitely been a problem for a long time. I see it frequently. For instance, every year about this time I go to download all my past year’s bank statements to go through for my tax preparation. At least one of my banks names the downloaded file “stmt.txt” with no indication of which month it is. If I click on several months to download each statement, I will only end up with the most recent one as the others get downloaded and then overwritten. So instead of clicking 12 times (once for each month) I have to click, go to the Downloads folder, rename the file with the appropriate month number, go back to Safari, and click on the next month. It’s annoying.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

That’s just one example: I’ve had the problem with downloads on other sites, too. (Like a clipart\/stock photo site where I painstakingly went through to find and download thumbnails of a dozen possible graphics I might want to use, and when I went to the Finder there was only a single file saved, called preview.jpg – the site named all the thumbnails the same. 🤦‍♂️<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Safari also checks for “duplicates” when asked to open links from other apps. If you click a link and there’s already a tab open for that URL, it will activate that tab instead of opening a new one.<\/p>\n

Update (2023-04-21): This tab coalescing can lead to data loss, e.g. if you have typed into a form and then click a link that has the same URL as the form it will reload the page and discard what you entered.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

jmhbpc: Not sure when the feature started in Safari wherein duplicate downloads, within close proximity in time, would be replaced by the latest download… But I have noticed a bit of a flaw in that feature. Example: When downloading zipped music files at Bandcamp a zip archive of the same name can replace a previous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-18T20:55:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"ec4dbcce-be91-4607-8f90-d538b5d7e929","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-11-27T15:48:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A7E28zr6RRgePkNU4tdfpKQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2503,131,1016,30,2223,103,2673],"class_list":["post-39073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bandcamp","tag-bug","tag-datacide","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-safari","tag-zip-archive"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39107,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39073\/revisions\/39107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}