263300 - # Character in folder name causes incorrect attachment file name

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243504

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Mike Truss]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

Thunderbird cannot handle an attachment filename correctly if their is a #
character in the path to the file you are trying to attach.

For example, I have a folder named "SA#24 Seoul" somewhere on my D: drive, If I
write an e-mail using Thunderbird and try to attach any file from the folder
"SA#24 Seoul", Thunderbird will allways give the attachment the filename "SA"
with no extension. When the mail is sent, any and all attachments included from
that folder will simply have the filename SA

Note when placing the cursor over the attachment in the Thunderbird composition
attachment pane the full path/filename pops up but with "SA%2324 Seoul" as the
folder name for "SA#24 Seoul". 

This problem does not exist in Netscape 7.1 Email

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a folder with a # in the name e.g. "Test # 25"
2. Copy a few files with different names into the folder
3. Compose an email with thunderbird
4. Try to attach any of the files from the folder to the e-mail
5. For the folder example at 1. all files attached will have the same incorrect
filename, i.e. "Test" (the part of the folder name before the # character)
Actual Results:  
All Attached Files have incorrect and identical filename

Expected Results:  
Used the coirrect filenames

Note when placing the cursor over the attachment in the Thunderbird composition
attachment pane the full path/filename pops up but with "SA%2324 Seoul" as the
folder name for "SA#24 Seoul". 

This problem does not exist in Netscape 7.1 Email

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243504 ***