Notebook: Can't paste two images from clipboard in markdown cell

[ghost]

Hi, I recently discovered the awesome paste image feature from clipboard in a markdown cell. However, as images are inserted as markdown code ![image.png](attachment:image.png), when inserting two images in the same cell, the first image is replaced by the second one and the first one is overwritten.

[telamonian]

Found this issue after having the exact same problem. I think the overwrite occurs due to every pasted image having the same name (ie image.png) in the notebook's metadata.

Does anyone know if there's a way to rename the inline image immediately after pasting?

[telamonian]

One easy fix would be for the notebook to automatically name each image sequentially: image00.png, image01.png, etc. I bet they didn't implement it that way in order to prevent images from becoming orphaned amongst the cell metadata over the course of multiple cycles of copy-paste. If the user had to manually set extra names, though, they would at least be aware of which images were being preserved.

[ihnorton]

Proposed fix: #3821, use a uuid for each attachment.

A more sophisticated thing would be to hash the image content to avoid storing duplicate attachments if an image is pasted twice (at least in the same cell). I didn't see a hashing library dependency already, so I didn't do that.

prevent images from becoming orphaned amongst the cell metadata over the course of multiple cycles of copy-paste.

I was worried about this too, but found per #621, attachments will be scrubbed automatically when the notebook is saved.

[zimmermant]

This still seems to be a problem. Anyone have a fix for this?

[nlahri]

I am also looking for a solution to the same problem.

[cyapur]

I am also looking for a solution to the same problem.

[evyasonov]

Same problem. Please fix

[prampey]

This issue is still relevant now 2 years since it was opened. A fix would be greatly appreciated.