Firefox - Save - Web,Complete - Folder called "_files" is created
Does anyone else have this experience on SUSE 10 RC1? (I had this on SUSE 9.3 too.) Open a web page, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4299074.stm Save it as a file with spaces: Moon's shadow moves across Earth.htm in the Web,Complete mode. You find that instead of Moon's shadow moves across Earth_files folder like in Windows, there's only a _files folder. And save two or three web pages to the same folder with such names, then all your images etc are thrown into a single _files folder instead of filename1_files filename2_files etc. Does anyone else have this? Is it a bug with Firefox or SUSE? Where should I report it? Shriramana.
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 15:15, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Does anyone else have this experience on SUSE 10 RC1? (I had this on SUSE 9.3 too.)
Open a web page, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4299074.stm
Save it as a file with spaces: Moon's shadow moves across Earth.htm in the Web,Complete mode.
Yeuch, spaces in a file name - My view is that's a feature, not a bug. Down with spaces in filenames and all the tedious escape characters you then have to enter when handling them in a shell. Nature abhors a vacuum, and *nix abhors spaces in filenames. Be brave - say no to filenames with spaces. Tho' I'd have expected a file called Earth_files, perhaps ... BTW, I don't get your results unless I remove the proposed filename 4299074.stm.html thrown up by Firefox's 'Save As' and replace it with your string full of spaces. My cure would be to give it a much shorter filename, or, if I was keen on the long one, to use dashes or underscores. You'll have an easier life in the long run, promise, particularly when you're logged in over a terminal or emulator from some remote location and trying to do something complex with your files. HTH Fergus
You find that instead of Moon's shadow moves across Earth_files folder like in Windows, there's only a _files folder. And save two or three web pages to the same folder with such names, then all your images etc are thrown into a single _files folder instead of filename1_files filename2_files etc.
Does anyone else have this? Is it a bug with Firefox or SUSE? Where should I report it?
Shriramana.
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* Shriramana Sharma
Does anyone else have this experience on SUSE 10 RC1? (I had this on SUSE 9.3 too.)
Open a web page, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4299074.stm
Save it as a file with spaces: Moon's shadow moves across Earth.htm in the Web,Complete mode.
You find that instead of Moon's shadow moves across Earth_files folder like in Windows, there's only a _files folder. And save two or three web pages to the same folder with such names, then all your images etc are thrown into a single _files folder instead of filename1_files filename2_files etc.
If you are bound and determined to include <spaces> in file names, they need to be escaped or the file name enclosed in quotations. ie: Moon\'s\ shadow\ moves "Moon's shadow moves" -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2
Thanks all. I now understand that. I guess this is something left over from my Windows life.
On Tuesday, October 04, 2005 @ 6:15 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Does anyone else have this experience on SUSE 10 RC1? (I had this on SUSE 9.3 too.)
Open a web page, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4299074.stm
Save it as a file with spaces: Moon's shadow moves across Earth.htm in the
Web,Complete mode.
You find that instead of Moon's shadow moves across Earth_files folder like in Windows, there's only a _files folder. And save two or three web pages to the same folder with such names, then all your images etc are thrown into a single _files folder instead of filename1_files filename2_files etc.
Does anyone else have this? Is it a bug with Firefox or SUSE? Where should I report it?
Shriramana.
I think you need to put "" around the name if you really want to preserve the spaces; e. g., "Moon's shadow moves across Earth.htm". Greg Wallace
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