# Duplicating page in RW7 creates conflict

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Tags:** rw7\
**Created:** [June 3, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546 "2016-06-03T15:20:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Beemerang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@Beemerang](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Beemerang)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546/1 "2016-06-03T15:20:16Z")

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Has anyone else experienced this?:

If I duplicate a page in RW7, the exact folder name of the page being duplicated is used as the folder name for the new page and thus a conflict is created because the page pointer links to the original page, not the new duplicate.

In RW6, the new page’s folder defaults to something like Page9.

Cheers,  
Beem

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**Author:** ![DaveFox](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/davefox/32/129_2.png) [@DaveFox](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/DaveFox)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546/2 "2016-06-03T17:09:49Z")

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Correct - you need to give a new page and folder name, it doesn’t automatically make a new folder as it did in RW6.

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**Author:** ![Beemerang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@Beemerang](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Beemerang)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546/3 "2016-06-03T17:11:33Z")

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Thanks Dave, I prefer the old approach to be honest. Sometimes I just want to duplicate a page quickly and test some stack configurations without having to worry about duplicate folder names.

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**Author:** ![Mathew](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/mathew/32/2771_2.png) [@Mathew](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Mathew)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546/4 "2016-06-03T17:25:03Z")

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Wow, this is not a good new feature. Especially for novice users. And for anyone it can be easily missed. The RW6 way to naming duplicated folders is much safer.

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**Author:** ![Beemerang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@Beemerang](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Beemerang)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546/5 "2016-06-03T17:26:27Z")

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I agree 100% Mathew. I have opened a ticket with RM so let’s see if this was perhaps unintended or a new approach.

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**Author:** ![DaveFox](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/davefox/32/129_2.png) [@DaveFox](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/DaveFox)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546/6 "2016-06-03T17:52:47Z")

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Mmm? - I found duplicating a page needed a new folder name when testing the RW7 Beta, caught me out at first but soon got used to it.

Just re-visited this and now if I duplicate a page in 7.0.1 a new folder is automatically created - which is what you wanted - so why isn’t it doing it for you?

**Edit** - In some projects I open you’re right - it keeps the original folder name, in other projects it automatically creates a new folder - weird!

**2nd edit!** - If I’ve not renamed the folder and left it as page 2 or page 3 a new folder is automatically created with a page number + 1 - if I’ve renamed the folder it keeps the original folder name.

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**Author:** ![Beemerang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@Beemerang](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Beemerang)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546/7 "2016-06-03T18:46:41Z")

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Weird, I am on 7.02 though. Still, one would expect consistency from one project to another if not between versions of RW.

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**Author:** ![Beemerang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d2c977/32.png) [@Beemerang](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Beemerang)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 5:51am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/duplicating-page-in-rw7-creates-conflict/7546/8 "2016-06-06T05:51:17Z")

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UPDATE: FYI, RealMac has responded, saying that this will be fixed in a future release.

Cheers,  
Beem