Renaming the File Attachments from Old Jira Version

Problem

• After migrating from Jira Server to Jira Cloud, some attachments are broken due to different format of the file name in old Jira version.

• This usually happens when Jira Server was running Jira 4.2 or earlier, then upgraded the version to the latest version.

Cause

• In older version of Jira, the attachments are named as id_filename (Jira 4.2 and earlier). However, attachments are named only with IDs on the latest version of Jira (including Jira Cloud).

• Even after upgrading Jira to the latest version, the old attachments remain with the old formatting,id_filename

• Example:

  • Old format:

    

  • New format:

    

Resolution

Prerequisites

• Need to make sure that 'rename' package is installed

  Command 'rename' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install rename

Steps:

1. Save the following code block into a file and name it

   rename.sh

   #!/bin/bash echo "Renaming the files..." rm -f rename.txt find -name "* *" -type f | rename 's/ /_/g' filenames=`find "$PWD" -type f | grep "_"` filenames_arr=(`echo $filenames | tr ' ' ' '`) len=${#filenames_arr[@]} for (( i=0; i<$len; i++ )); do filename="${filenames_arr[$i]}" filename_arr=(`echo $filename | tr '_' ' '`) newfilename="${filename_arr[0]}" if [[ $filename == *"thumb"* ]]; then echo "Not renaming thumbnail files" >> rename.txt echo $filename >> rename.txt echo "======================================================" >> rename.txt else echo "Renaming thumbnail files" >> rename.txt echo $filename >> rename.txt echo $newfilename >> rename.txt mv $filename $newfilename echo "======================================================" >> rename.txt fi done echo "Done!"

2. Place the script within the data folder

3. Run the script:

   $ ./rename.sh

4. You would notice a log file called rename.txt is then added to the directory