267394 - Pound (#) in name of attachment's parent directory causes Thunderbird to mangle attachment name

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 243504

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Graham Freeman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.9
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When I attach a file to a new message, and that file is in a directory with a pound (#) in the name, 
Thunderbird renames the file to the name of the directory up until (and including) the pound sign.  
Obviously, this causes a lot of confusion for the recipient if the sender doesn't notice before sending.

I had this problem on MacOS X v10.3 and on Windows XP Pro, using Thunderbird 0.8 on both platforms.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a directory with a pound (#) in the name.
2. Place a file (example.jpg) in that directory.
3. Using Thunderbird, try to attach that file.  The filename will be mangled.
Actual Results:  
The attachment file name was mangled.

Expected Results:  
The attachment file name should have been the same as it was on the filesystem.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

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