Confluence - import .xlsx from Macbook

Question

Hi,

i have an question about upload a .xlsx file to Confluence. I have an attachment in the Confulence, I download, edit and upload it. When I do this on windows, the attachment is saved under the original one and versioned. I guess it goes by the name of the file.

But when I do the same thing on my macbook, the file is uploaded as a new one and not uploaded as a version to the original one, even though they have the same name.
This happens even if I just download the file from Confluence, don't even open it and upload it back again. It will still create a new one.

Is there any way to do this please ?

Thank you.

Benjamin_tmh9yg · Answer

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the additional context. This will definitely help others who may encounter the same issue. I did everything through Mac. I don't have a windows 10 system. Interesting that the file would be anything different across OS.

I'm wondering if you can manually go and upload the new version. What you do is go to view attachment. There should be a download and upload button. Click on upload button for new version. Hopefully this helps.

Adam Sehnoutka · Answer

Hi Benjamin,

thanks so much for your reply and the time you put into this. You need to create and upload the first file in Windows10, And then download, edit and upload from MacOs.

Did you do it this way, or did you do everything from Macbook ?

The problem is with the customer who created and manages this attachment in JIRA (he uses windows). As long as I had windows, I didn't have a problem with it, and now I have to do it on windows too, because my macbook loads the new version there.

Even if I just download the attachment on my macbook, transfer it to windows, and then upload it from windows, that will also create a new version. So it seems that macbook will immediately make the .xlsx into one of its own. As if it has different metadata than on windows.

Thank you.

Benjamin_tmh9yg · Answer

Welcome @Adam Sehnoutka .

Didn't observe that issue. Tried to reproduce the same with my MacBook but it shows up as version 2. What I did was go to attachments on the page. Select file and upload.

Using Chrome and Sonoma 14.X for reference.