Downloading a sprite in a folder and uploading it somewhere else creates that folder there. about scratchaddons

[WorldLanguages]

What about the backpack? I bet it is used more frequently than exporting as a file.

[BroJac5246]

Some users might prefer the current way this works. Perhaps there could be a popup when uploading the sprite that asks if you want to create the folder. If the folder already exists then it can be added there automatically.

[DNin01]

This probably happens because the name of the folder a sprite is in is stored in its name, which is preserved in full when exported.

When you import one of these sprites, Scratch Addons recognizes a folder name in the sprite's name and puts it in a folder, which is exactly how it is supposed to know what sprites are in what folders.

It's a result of the folders themselves not actually being stored internally, just the references - the sprites that are in that folder, via their names.

This could be fixed by simply not including the folder name prefix in exported sprites, or removing it during importation.

[iqnite]

It's not a bug, it's actually how the addon works. It would require adding a whole bunch of code to remove the folder name on export, and if we removed it on sprite upload, there are edge cases with duplicate sprite names that would require us to rename the sprite twice, which would be confusing.
Currently, the best way to work around this is to simply rename the file once exported.

[BroJac5246]

Some users might prefer the current way this works. Perhaps there could be a popup when uploading the sprite that asks if you want to create the folder. If the folder already exists then it can be added there automatically.

W_L what is your preferred solution? The pop-up could be optional, of course.