[Bug 485224] Re: Thunderbird saves double attachment file name endings on FAT32 and NTFS

[Christoph]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: thunderbird
  
- When saving attachments to a FAT32 or an NTFS partition, Thunderbird duplicates file name endings. E.g. it saves "draft.doc" as "draft.doc" on EXT3/EXT4, but as "draft.doc.doc" on FAT32/NTFS.
+ When saving individual attachments to a FAT32 or an NTFS partition (not: menu File - Attachments - Save all), Thunderbird duplicates file name endings. E.g. it saves "draft.doc" as "draft.doc" on EXT3/EXT4, but as "draft.doc.doc" on FAT32/NTFS.
  I have my Thunderbird profile on a Linux/Windows shared FAT32 partition, but I also checked it with a temporary profile on the main EXT4 partition. So the bug really seems to be in the portion of the software that saves attachments to disk.
  
  Kind of a workaround:
- If anyone needs a workaround for large numbers of attachments, here's a very primitive one: 
+ If anyone needs a workaround for large numbers of attachments, here's a very primitive one:
  * go to the folder where the double named attachments are
  * $ rename -v 's/(\.\w{3}\w?){2}$/$1/' *
  This looks for 3 or 4 character long file name endings that are duplicated and removes one copy.
  
  I saved this single line 'script' in a file and installed it to
  /usr/local/bin as an executable ($ sudo install yourfilename
  /usr/local/bin). Now I can just cd to the concerned folder and say my
  magic word (the name of the script), voilà.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Nov 19 09:40:58 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.3)
  Package: mozilla-thunderbird (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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Thunderbird saves double attachment file name endings on FAT32 and NTFS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485224
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