Can we move page attachments to another page?

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#1

I have large wiki pages with attachments (for embedded page images) that are getting too big to manage, so I’d like to break those pages into a series of smaller pages. That’s easy enough, a cut and paste does the trick

However, for the embedded images that exist as attachments to the original page, is there a way to move those attachments to the new page?

Or, do I have to link the attachmentents from the old page ot the new one?

[edit] Well, I can update all the links to point to the images on the previous page, but I’d still prefer to attach the images to the page where they are actually used.

#2

There is nothing in the UI to move an attachment right now, you would have to download, delete the old one, upload to the new page. But if you have a lot of those it should not be hard to do in a script.

#3

This is https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-1657

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#4

That’s not really an idea way to manage it for most xwiki users.

xwiki has a really nice feature that allows you to upload and embed images easily. It’s really convenient.

If I have to manage it separately (dedicated page with related image attachments, then take the additional steps of linking to that image), it becomes a bit more time consuming and a bit more of a hassle.

Also, deleting and re-uploading is a problem if you actually care about the attachment history - in that rare case where you actually do have a history you care about.

#5

Indeed, then you are left with scripting.