How can I update documents in the media section while maintaining links?

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  questhapkido · Member · Dec 3, 2012 at 7:55 pm

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  How can I update my word documents in the media section while maintaining links? I’d rather not have to delete the current document, upload a new one and then have to update all my links to that document manually.

  Thanks!

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  justpi · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 6:21 am

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  You can’t. If you re-upload a file with the same name the same month, the filename gets an extra number (as you’ve probably found), even if you have deleted the previous version; if you don’t upload it the same month, the date will be different so again you can;t have the same URL. The solution is either upload such files to a file hosting site that allows replacing files and gives direct URLs, or upload them to your blog, insert them in separate static pages, and link to the page URL instead of the file URL.

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  questhapkido · Member · Dec 4, 2012 at 7:03 pm

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  Thanks for your help!