197003 - Save As & Save Image As shorten filenames

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 95481

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[earth]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

It looks like in 1.2.1 for MacOSX, file names longer than 32 characters are
being shortened with "..." inserted for all the removed characters.  The example
URL can be viewed, but when "File->Save As" is run, the actual file saved to the
local file system is "012345678901234...01234567890.txt" (which is especially
ugly on the file system because they are special characters and can show as ???.

Either a setting should be added to disable this feature (perhaps its something
about OS9 support) or for OSX it should be assumed that files can be up to 255
chars and if someone wants to run OS9 32-char limited programs they can shorten
the filename by hand.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Using "File->Save As" or "Save Image As..." enter a filename longer than 32+
characters.
2. Hit Save.
3. Look at the file on the filesystem with a command line or the Finder.
4. Filename has been shortened and "..." has been added to the middle.

Actual Results:  
Ugly filenames, destroys local web development on OS X

Expected Results:  
do not shorten filenames for OSX

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

earth, 1.2.1 is too old for bug reporting purposes. Please retest using a
current nightly build (in which this issue is likely fixed).

Comment 2

[Frankie]

1.2.1 was the last CFM release. All Mach-O versions, such as the upcoming 1.3,
support long file names properly.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95481 ***