Bulk Import, duplicate documents for existing file

If I use Bulk Import on a directory where I have already imported most of the files and have renamed them, I cannot do another bulk import later on new files without getting more documents created for files that already existed. For example, if I bulk import file1.pdf and file2.pdf, this works fine. Then later, I FTP file3.pdf and file4.pdf and do another bulk import I will get a new document for file 3 and file 4, but also one or more of the existing files gets an additional document created. So I might have something like: document for file1, document for file 2, document for file 3, document for file 4, and another document for file 2.

See image for an example of a document that was re-created for a file that already existed in the directory and had already been bulk imported at a prior time.

Hi Robin

Could you please submit a support ticket sending us super admin account of your site so that I can check to see whats' causing this issue and get it sorted ? have few customers reported the same issue but I could not figure out yet. Will check it myself this time

Tuan

This is the same issue that has plagued me since the change to Joomla 3. Part of my problem was the addition of the renaming files to safe names during the bulk import. That isn't whole problem, though, and I haven't been able to run the rest of it down. The last bulk import version that worked correctly for me was 1.5.5. I have compared the 2 import.php files and there are significant differences. All the code that prevents duplication appears to have been removed.

Hi

I found the reason of the error and now have it fixed in version 1.6.6. Sorry for the issue

Tuan

It appears that the bulk import has now been fixed and operates properly. Unfortunately version 1.6.6 rewrites my created dates to the date of the associated file. In other words, I have a file that was created in edocman on 09/13/2013. When I backed up the site to my local server for testing, during copying, the date of the pdfs in all of the category folders was changed by windows to 05/02/2015. When I updated edocman, it re-wrote all my created dates to 05/02/2015. The update was done on 05/11/2015, so I can only assume that the update changed the dates to match the pdf dates instead of keeping the original created dates. This makes the ordering by created date not work because they are all the same. Right now I have version 1.6.3 working and am using the 1.6.6 bulk import file and all seems to be working correctly. Versions since 1.6.3 attempt to change the created dates as did prior versions of the bulk import.

One additional thing I have noticed is that the new versions of edocman do not recognize the hierarchical structure of the categories even if you mark it in the configuration. When you create a subcategory, if you enter the path main_category/sub_category it correctly creates the category in the right place in the database and works properly, but after you save it, the path reverts to the subcategory name only. If you re-save it without re-entering the path as before, the files will no longer be sent to the subcategory but the main one.