Why is uploaded file renamed when saved on server

[steinm]

I have a general question about uploaded files. For example, when I upload a file named invoice.pdf, it is renamed 1.pdf once it reaches the server disk drive.

Any particular reason? I'd really like to preserve the filename if possible. Is there a way to do this?

There is a simple reason for it. Any DMS needs a structured way to save the documents. Something, the software can rely on. That's way letodms creates a directory for each document and puts any version of a document into a file named <version>.<filetype>

If a file invoice.pdf was saved under the same name, how would you call a new version of that file with the same name?

BTW, letodms keeps the original file name in the database.

Uwe