Duplicate a File
I am trying to copying an Entity in the DB, which has a file associated to it to another user. So when a user tried to duplicate an entity, I need to:
1. Copy entity to the new user
2. If there is a file attached to it, duplicate it and attach to the new Entity created.
I could not figure out how to duplicate an existing file in Convex. Any idea?
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Thank you!
There should be a less resource intensive way to do this, but the approach you'll need to take is:
1. Set up an http action to serve the existing file: https://docs.convex.dev/file-storage/serve-files#serving-files-from-http-actions
2. Use an action to fetch the file from the http action and store it, effectively duplicating it: https://docs.convex.dev/file-storage/store-files#storing-files-in-actions