If I upload a file that already exists on Google Docs (because I didn't realize I already uploaded it, or because I'm doing a bulk upload) I get a second copy of the file.
Is there any way to get Google Docs to check for duplicates?
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In this viewer you can Edit online or just save it in your Google Docs:
I think they don't have a direct link that you could use to simply convert the files and have them in the edit mode directly. You might have to take the API route.
actually it's enough to uncheck "convert to google document" and upload it in the original format without conversion.
Changing the filename did not work for me when I renamed to ".jpg" and then renamed the uploaded document back. I could upload and rename, but the filetype was still identified as "jpeg" and on download the file extension was reset to "jpg" (which could be quite confusing for other people you share it with)
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There is no such option in Google Docs as such . But there may be possibility of using GreeseMonkey Scripts or third-party browser extensions for doing so.
But there the problem would be that we have to match the file-name and size of each newly uploaded file with all the existing once, but Google Docs does not shows the file sizes of individual files in anyway.
The third-party extension would have to download the all the files to make it possible - which is not practical and also not possible because Google Docs sometimes converts the uploaded files into it's own format - screws the formatting and file size also alters.
So, basically not possible.