Title: Duplicate problem
Last modified: May 20, 2021

---

# Duplicate problem

 *  Resolved [marcorroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcorroma/)
 * (@marcorroma)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-problem-3/)
 * Hi, I’m having some problems with “Checks if the image already exist to avoid
   duplicates.”.
    It appears to recognize some files with the same name, but they
   are different media. It is impossible that those files have already been uploaded
   to my site, because it also happened with recent photos of a match played a few
   minutes before. Can I disable this feature? My media archive is large, and this
   feature is causing me problems. Thanks for support

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

 *  Plugin Contributor [hemenderki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hemenderki/)
 * (@hemenderki)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-problem-3/#post-14474274)
 * Hello [@marcorroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcorroma/),
 * Sorry you are having this issue. I’ll definitely look into it.
 * I can’t seem to be able to replicate the problem though. I tried uploading case.
   jpg and case.pdf without any issues.
 * Could I ask you to please try to search in the media library if you can find 
   the file? Try searching for just a portion av the file name if it is long. For
   example if the name is this-is-my-boat.jpg, try searching “boat”.
 *  Also try replacing special characters with english ones. For example “läsk” 
   becomes “lask”.
 * If you have any more details that could help I would be grateful for those too.
 *  Thread Starter [marcorroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcorroma/)
 * (@marcorroma)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-problem-3/#post-14475352)
 * Hi, thanks for your reply.
 * The problem is that my colleagues have pictures named the same.
    Example a football
   match “real-madrid-barcelona.jpg”, which after about 6 months is played again,
   and my colleagues will have to upload a new photo of the match, named in the 
   same way.
 * Is it possible to exclude this function?
    Or you should improve this feature,
   and not allow uploads of images with the same name and size. This way you are
   sure that the image is the same (if the size is totally the same) and the name
   is the same.
 * What do you think about it?
 *  Plugin Contributor [hemenderki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hemenderki/)
 * (@hemenderki)
 * [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-problem-3/#post-14511716)
 * Hello [@marcorroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcorroma/)!
 * Sorry for the late reply. We have decided to make the duplicate setting an option
   that you could turn on and off. It’s coming in one of the upcoming updates in
   maybe a week or two.
 * Hope that solves it for you.
 * I’ll mark this as solved in the mean time.
 * Let me know if you experience any more issues.
 *  Thread Starter [marcorroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcorroma/)
 * (@marcorroma)
 * [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-problem-3/#post-14515331)
 * Thanks for your work.
    I await the update. Thank you

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

The topic ‘Duplicate problem’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/better-images_b49a84.svg)
 * [Better Images - Sharpen, compress, optimize and resize image after upload](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-images/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-images/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-images/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-images/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-images/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-images/reviews/)

 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [marcorroma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcorroma/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-problem-3/#post-14515331)
 * Status: resolved