eleybourn/Book-Catalogue — Issue #297: Rename all image files in next release?
Author: Grunthos
Created: 2012-03-01 14:21:12+00:00
State: open

I've just added a (random) UUID to the books table, which means import/export should no longer be as problematic, especially when importing someone elses export.

The question I have is: can anyone see a readon not to rename all image files to match the UUID of the books?

Disadvantages:

1. May be slow upgrade: rename 1000's of files.

2. Creates a bunch of weird 32 character hex names.

3. Not easy to quickly find the file for a book in a CSV file.

Advantages:

1. Merging collections is easy

2. Overwriting files very unlikely

3. Import/export always safe