When I select “Collect Project Items…”, Xojo gives me the warning stating that this operation can’t be undone. I confirm it. The result is an error, and the project items are not collected into the project. The error is:
one-of-the-image-files (element 1) already existed and was not overwritten
When expanded this error reads:
one-of-the-image-files.Name - one-of-the-image-files (element 1) already existed and was not overwritten one-of-the-image-files
one-of-the-image-files.Name - one-of-the-image-files (element 2) already existed and was not overwritten one-of-the-image-files
one-of-the-image-files.Name - one-of-the-image-files (element 3) already existed and was not overwritten one-of-the-image-files
I deleted this image file and added it again, tried again, same result. Xojo2019r1.1, MacOS 10.13.6
From what I understand, when you collect Project Items, image references from outside your project are placed in a folder called “Images”. The /Images folder will be within the folder containing your *.xojo_project file.
Are you deleting from this /Images folder?
That’s the error I used to get (pre-2019r3) and that was my fix for this message.
No, only because I was in the middle of releasing things when the API 2.0 came out, and I didn’t update anything out of fear I would have to deal with new problems (even though I had already renewed my licences for the next 2 years). Now my releases are done, I should update.
Oh, no. You’re right. That explains where the mysterious “images” folder came from. I thought I had accidentally put it there.