My Firefox automatically shortens the names of the files I download. For example, 231546798_20110608.pdf becomes 2315.pdf.I later realized that it may relate to the long name of the path into which I try to download the file. The path is ridiculously long:/windows-d/academic discipline/study objects/areas/human aspects/social sciences/communication/ways of communication/way of spread, ie electronic media and communication/application/telephone communication/examples/cell phone/me/verizon/bill/I then build a directory named hahaunder the above long path. Note that haha is exactly as long as the name of the shortened file name (extension pdf is excluded) . It turns out that Firefox doesn't download the file into directory haha, although I specify it to. But I can download the file to other directory with much shorter path name, and have no problem with copying the file into haha.I wonder how to explain the strange behaviour of Firefox? PS:My OS is Ubuntu 10.10, and Firefox is 11.0.The problem here is similar to my previous question, but there Iasked about the OS, and here I talked about Firefox.
My Firefox shortens names of the files I download
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