diff --git a/packages/nc-gui/components/cell/attachment/utils.ts b/packages/nc-gui/components/cell/attachment/utils.ts
index bd2a5e1748..e2c8e040d8 100644
--- a/packages/nc-gui/components/cell/attachment/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/nc-gui/components/cell/attachment/utils.ts
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ export const [useProvideAttachmentCell, useAttachmentCell] = useInjectionState(
 
         return updateModelValue(attachments.value)
       } else if (isPublic.value && isForm.value) {
-        attachments.value = [...attachments.value, ...imageUrls.map((item) => ({ ...item, title: item.fileName }))]
+        attachments.value = [...attachments.value, ...imageUrls]
 
         return updateModelValue(attachments.value)
       }
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ export const [useProvideAttachmentCell, useAttachmentCell] = useInjectionState(
             [
               {
                 ...imageData,
-                ...(isPublic.value && isForm.value ? {} : { url: imageUrl }),
+                url: imageUrl,
                 fileName: `image.${imageData?.mimetype?.split('/')[1]}`,
                 title: `image.${imageData?.mimetype?.split('/')[1]}`,
               },
@@ -319,26 +319,10 @@ export const [useProvideAttachmentCell, useAttachmentCell] = useInjectionState(
       try {
         const response = await fetch(imageUrl)
         if (response.ok && response.headers.get('content-type')?.startsWith('image/')) {
-          const res = {
+          return {
             mimetype: response.headers.get('content-type') || undefined,
             size: +(response.headers.get('content-length') || 0) || undefined,
-            data: undefined,
-          } as { minetype?: string; size?: number; data?: any }
-
-          if (isPublic.value && isForm.value) {
-            const blob = await response.blob()
-
-            res.data = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-              const reader = new FileReader()
-              reader.onloadend = () => {
-                resolve(reader.result)
-              }
-              reader.onerror = reject
-              reader.readAsDataURL(blob)
-            })
-          }
-
-          return res
+          } as { minetype?: string; size?: number }
         }
         throw new Error('Field to parse image url')
       } catch (err) {
diff --git a/packages/nocodb/src/services/public-datas.service.ts b/packages/nocodb/src/services/public-datas.service.ts
index f71a11707d..5cc9abe635 100644
--- a/packages/nocodb/src/services/public-datas.service.ts
+++ b/packages/nocodb/src/services/public-datas.service.ts
@@ -320,7 +320,19 @@ export class PublicDatasService {
         fields[fieldName].uidt === UITypes.Attachment
       ) {
         attachments[fieldName] = attachments[fieldName] || [];
-        const originalName = utf8ify(file.originalname);
+        let originalName = utf8ify(file.originalname);
+
+        let c = 1;
+        while (
+          path.extname(originalName) &&
+          attachments[fieldName].some((att) => att?.title === originalName)
+        ) {
+          originalName = originalName.replace(
+            /(.+?)(\.[^.]+)$/,
+            `$1(${c++})$2`,
+          );
+        }
+
         const fileName = `${nanoid(18)}${path.extname(originalName)}`;
 
         const url = await storageAdapter.fileCreate(
@@ -347,6 +359,65 @@ export class PublicDatasService {
       }
     }
 
+    // filter the uploadByUrl attachments
+    const uploadByUrlAttachments = [];
+    for (const [column, data] of Object.entries(insertObject)) {
+      if (fields[column].uidt === UITypes.Attachment && Array.isArray(data)) {
+        data.forEach((file, uploadIndex) => {
+          if (file?.url && !file?.file) {
+            uploadByUrlAttachments.push({
+              ...file,
+              fieldName: column,
+              uploadIndex,
+            });
+          }
+        });
+      }
+    }
+
+    for (const file of uploadByUrlAttachments) {
+      const filePath = sanitizeUrlPath([
+        'noco',
+        base.title,
+        model.title,
+        file.fieldName,
+      ]);
+
+      attachments[file.fieldName] = attachments[file.fieldName] || [];
+
+      const fileName = `${nanoid(18)}${path.extname(
+        file?.fileName || file.url.split('/').pop(),
+      )}`;
+
+      const attachmentUrl: string | null = await storageAdapter.fileCreateByUrl(
+        slash(path.join('nc', 'uploads', ...filePath, fileName)),
+        file.url,
+      );
+
+      let attachmentPath: string | undefined;
+
+      // if `attachmentUrl` is null, then it is local attachment
+      if (!attachmentUrl) {
+        // then store the attachment path only
+        // url will be constructed in `useAttachmentCell`
+        attachmentPath = `download/${filePath.join('/')}/${fileName}`;
+      }
+
+      // add attachement in uploaded order
+      attachments[file.fieldName].splice(
+        file.uploadIndex ?? attachments[file.fieldName].length,
+        0,
+        {
+          ...(attachmentUrl ? { url: attachmentUrl } : {}),
+          ...(attachmentPath ? { path: attachmentPath } : {}),
+          title: file.fileName,
+          mimetype: file.mimetype,
+          size: file.size,
+          icon: mimeIcons[path.extname(fileName).slice(1)] || undefined,
+        },
+      );
+    }
+
     for (const [column, data] of Object.entries(attachments)) {
       insertObject[column] = JSON.stringify(data);
     }