Solved long file Names

xillibit, thank you.

Can you give me a clue where can I find this part of the code that handles the change of the filename?

I have a problem that utf8 characters are not shown in the link so i get no links at all if all the filename is in Hebrew.

Thanks,
Omri

So I decided to disable the shorten file names and it's also solved the problem I had with the missing characters in Hebrew.

in libraries/kunena/attachment/attachment.php

line 466:

replace: $output=substr($filename,0,$front).$filler.substr($filename,$len-$back,$back);
with: $output=$filename;

Omri

This issue has not been included in GitHub as far as I can tell. If it has been listed as something to be looked at, what is the GitHub reference, please.

github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/issues/3424

As a brand new user of this forum and of the latest version (4.0.7), I would like to also see this problem solved. Not being able to see the whole file name of the attachments is a big problem. We would like to be able to upload documents into the forum so users can refer to them but the users will not easily be able to tell what file they should click on without its whole name being there.

As I wrote earlier in this topic,

sozzled wrote:

The problem has never occurred before in earlier versions of Kunena. I don't like the way that Kunena now truncates attachment filenames two the last three characters plus the filename extension.

In my opinion, this change is a design defect — no question about it.

This defect was introduced around the time of K 4.0.3 (I think) and it does not look like it will be fixed in K 4.0. See GitHub reference #3844 . The developers appear to have decided that the ability to have these long file names will be a [configurable] "feature" of K 5.0.