Can anyone suggest an easy way to do an 'import' of (many) images that are actually updates of previously existing images (and have the same names)? Even if I modify the first existence test in the importImages script, I'm guessing that the statement, $image->recordUpload( '', 'Importing image file' ) will still fail because the database (or other MW code) will prevent overwriting of an existing file by another file.

At the moment the best way I can think of to do this is to simply write a script that would go through the 'images' directory and a directory of the new images, and replace on the basis of names. Even there, I'm not sure if the metadata will change appropriately, nor if it needs to.

Thanks, Ken