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When someone requests a file using your request a file tool, the person who uploads the file's name gets added to the file name eg janedoe_filea.pdf . This is really frustrating and I end up having t...
Can we please have an option to disable the renaming of files?
Renaming files can have catastrophic effects on dependent files. If I have an InDesign file with dependent files in the Links folder and the filenames don't match what the main document expects, then it won't find them. Each file will need to be manually renamed to make things work again, and if there are hundreds of links... well you get the idea.
I'm sure InDesign isn't the only programme that has dependent files. The same can happen with linked files in Photoshop, Illustrator and likely countless other apps.
This has been a problem for me. This 'auto rename' thing is crazy and should be changed.