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My browser do not notify me for duplicate file or image how come?

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Charlot1957
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It's just saving without telling me there is a file with same filename

It's just saving without telling me there is a file with same filename

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Ashish Mishra
Ashish Mishra
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re-install your browser

the-edmeister
the-edmeister
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As far as I know Firefox has never 'warned' about a duplicate file being saved. If the dupe would happened to be saved to the same folder, Firefox appends the file - as such - image(2).png or Firefox Setup 40(2).exe; at least with Windows OS currently. If anything, that would be a function of the operating system, AFAIK.

And as I recall happening with Ubuntu-based Easy Peasy Linux on a EeePC netbook that I was using a few years ago, the same 'append' to the file / image name when a file by that name was already in the folder being saved to. If saved to a different folder the file name was saved as downloaded = no 'append' happened. It seems to me that the operating system is the 'one' doing the recognition of file name already being present in the selected folder, because I have seen that 'append' happen when doing hard drive 'maintenance' or re-organization when I come across files that I saved to the 'wrong' folder initially and I went to move a file to the 'correct' folder = message that the file already existed in that folder and the 'drag' operation was cancelled.