This is a tough one, since the behavior you describe is actually intentional. Often, users will forget which photos they've uploaded and send the same one twice. Sometimes, they'll upload a photo, then rotate it and upload it again. In these cases, we just replace our copy of the image and leave the rest of the details alone.

Of course, it gets tricky when cameras start re-using image filenames. Worse still, if you have two photos, both named "Berlin.jpg", and try to upload them, one will overwrite the other.

This one will need a bit of thought. It seems that either way we do it, we'll break things for somebody.

I'll see what I can come up with. Glad to hear you're back up and running though!

Jason

written by  Jason Kester on July 10, 2007