Hello RS & Maxim, Saturday, May 14, 2011, 9:14:23 AM, you wrote:
> Hi Maxim, > Saturday, May 14, 2011, 5:07:06 AM, you wrote: [snip] Maxim >> The Bat! takes slash characters as path delimiters and cuts Maxim >> everything up to the last slash, and we aren't going to change Maxim >> that. Maxim >> Or, if you think we should change that, please let us know. I second this suggestion - this is definitely not intuitive or sensible behaviour for a mature email client. > As I wrote in my post '/' character is not allowed by OS and > it's obvious that you need to do something with that. File names with > OS reserved characters are rather not happen too often. > What I do not like in your approach is that you just move from the > end to the first slash and save what gets out: in that case 2011.pdf. Again, agreed. > However, I still think that above solution is improper: > - if user doesn't have a knowledge that part of information had been > removed from file name (there is no feedback from TB! that it's > dumping part of data), > - if he doesn't open a folder right after saving a file, > he wouldn't know what TB! did ; in some cases it might be a long > before user opens a folder if files are saved just for future > reference or extracted with filter. > If for example, in your solution: > - the last part is date and time (ex: 20110508_1732.pdf), > - there is a lot of e-mails with strange attachment file name, > - user saves them for future reference with filter or manually, > User may end up with hundreds or thousands of files that are mixed and > without slimest chance to determine what's in the file. > IMO, proper approach would be a pop-up window showing information that > characters used in the file name are improper and file name is planned > to be converted to the NAME (present your customer a name in Bold) > so he can see it clearly and knows what he's doing. User should be > given as well an improper name in editable cell so he can modify it > if he feels that name chosen by TB! is not proper. > Why not to inform user about violation and let him decide if he wants > a file name made by TB! or he wants to modify it by himself? I think the easiest solution to this is to have a configurable option in the preferences whereby a user can choose to use a standard scheme (e.g. replace all illegal filename characters with one of their choosing), or opt to have a choice in a pop-up dialog should a conversion error be detected. This way we include both camps: the user who doesn't really care about the filename so long as it's saved quickly; and those that would like to take the time to manually adjust it when saving an attachment. Either way you look at it though simply discarding all but the last portion of a filename and adding the extension is just plain wrong. -- Best regards, Mark mailto:[email protected] ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.0.12.3 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
