Possible Bug: Multiple Images When Not Renaming

[dkenzik]

Continuing the discussion from Delete images from Asset Manager:

@Bill616

I just discovered a troubling issue with the asset manager. I was having a problem with an image that was rendering larger than I expected it to be. I started jumping through all sorts of hoops to try to figure out why, but to no avail. I finally discovered the answer to the problem when I export the code. The exported code included multiple versions of the image (!) even though it displayed only one image in the asset manager. In trying to find the best way to display the image, I had cropped It in various ways, then uploaded new versions to see how they looked. In some cases, however, I didn’t bother to rename the image file. Because I did not see any duplicate images in the asset manager, I assumed that my multiple uploads with the same name were overwriting the old file, a typical behavior. However, after I exported the code, I discovered that the asset manager was NOT overwriting the old files, but adding an extension to the file name: image_1.jpg became image_1.1.jpg and then image_1.2.jpg, etc. Not only did the asset manager not display these extra image files, but Webflow became internally confused about which image was the correct image and was displaying an old image instead of the one I expected it to display. Although the dimensions in the popup box showed the correct dimensions I was looking for, they were NOT the dimensions of the image being displayed. The only way I could finally get the correct image to display was to give the image file an entirely different name. I wasted a lot of time figuring this out and hope it is fixed soon. In the meantime, if you are having strange image issues, you might want to consider this possible reason.

I’m moving this to a new topic/category, as it sound like a bug.