Feature Request: Replace asset with a new/existing one

[MattheousDT]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The project I'm working on has hundreds of pages with thousands of images that are referenced in multiple pages which contain information that are frequently subject to change. Currently my team and I have to manually go to every document and update each image to a new one.

Describe the solution you'd like
Have a replace button beside the delete button in the media browser that lets you either upload a new asset / pick an existing one and replace all references with the new one.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I do currently have a hacky script that finds all documents that reference, regex replace the id with a new asset id, then upsert, then I delete the old asset. This isn't something I would want to get the content team to be using as it has many points of potential failure and isn't user friendly.

[pascalwengerter]

I don't want to be the +1 guy, but the exact same topic came up with us today and it would be awesome to have an "official, upstream" way of doing this

[ryangittings]

+1 on this. It'd be really handy to be able to directly replace the asset and update right across the site :)

[aleczratiu]

+1 For this feature, are there any updates here?

[marcodallagatta]

Another +1 vote :)

[iainvdw]

Our content editor has also been requesting this feature. Any update on this perhaps?