Title: file* issues
Last modified: July 5, 2021

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# file* issues

 *  Resolved [franciscob86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franciscob86/)
 * (@franciscob86)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-issues/)
 * Hi, Im having an issue with the required (*) field for file upload. Initial issue
   was that all my file* fields remained as non-required in the form, so the sender
   could send through the form without attaching anything. I saw on another topic
   a similar issue and was recommended to roll back to an older version of CF7. 
   I did this but now it makes every other field befor the file* field as a non-
   required field, which makes things worse actually. So I had to leave the it as
   file only (with out the *) so that the form can work. Maybe I need to rollback
   the conditional fields plugin?
 * Current versions:
    CF7: 5.3.2 Conditional fields: 2.0.3
 * Thanks!
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by [franciscob86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franciscob86/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-issues/#post-14629069)
 * This is a known bug. [https://github.com/pwkip/contact-form-7-conditional-fields/issues/79](https://github.com/pwkip/contact-form-7-conditional-fields/issues/79)
   
   sorry for the inconvenience.
 *  Thread Starter [franciscob86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/franciscob86/)
 * (@franciscob86)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-issues/#post-14629107)
 * Thanks Jules. I added:
 * global $cf7cf;
    remove_filter( ‘wpcf7_validate_file*’, array($cf7cf,’skip_validation_for_hidden_file_field’),
   30 );
 * in my themes function.php, but its still not working correctly
 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-issues/#post-14693725)
 * Should be fixed with version 2.0.4.
 * There is some other strange behaviour going on with CF7, but it’s not related
   to conditional fields. See: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-required-file-does-not-appear-invalid-if-there-are-other-invalid-fields/#post-14693719](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-required-file-does-not-appear-invalid-if-there-are-other-invalid-fields/#post-14693719)

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/file-issues/#post-14693725)
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