Upload - Use ID instead of filename?

alphamoonbase.berlinlast year

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  denolfe

  last year

  You could rename the file to a uuid in a

  beforeOperation

  collection hook. There are some examples here (from one of the links by the bot):

  https://payloadcms.com/community-help/github/rename-file-on-upload-not-overwriting-other-uploads
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  alphamoonbase.berlinlast year

  Yeah, thats what I though of too. The issue then of course is that the filename gets lost.

  
  

  In Directus files store they actualy filename and then the "OnDisk" filename, which basicly is the ID of the object in the database and the extension of the original file.

  
  

  You can then either use /assets/{file_id} to get the raw data (and meta-data in the header derived from the DB-entry, i.E. the original filename)

  
  

  or items/files/{file_id} to get the data stored in the DB.

  
  
  

  With Payload I basicly have to access the data of the item first to get the download-path because the downloadpath is returned via API and not easily understandable.

  
  
  

  I suppose, it could be somewhat the other way around. Using a preRead hook and checking if the ID exists and returning the download-link. Hmmm.

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  denolfe

  last year

  Yeah, you could definitely get creative here. You could write the incoming filename to a separate field in the hook, so it could still be stored.