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Hi,

I don't know if this is an issue of Thunderbird or FreeCommander. I will explain anyway.

I have a mail with attachments in Thunderbird. The attachment filenames are rather long. When I drag and drop them from TB to FreeCommander where I need them saved, the filenames are "clipped". Some characters in the last part of the names are lost and a ... appears in their place. The extension is there.

For example, if I drop the attachment with name "2026-07-20_This_is_a_rather_long_filename_that_may_produce_issues_with_FreeCommander_ΣΧ.pdf" to FreeCommander, I get the file "2026-07-20_This_is_a_rather_long_filename_that_may_produce_issues_with_Fre...der_ΣΧ.pdf". For some reason, I cannot show images.

If I manually save the attachments from TB in the destination folder, no name clipping occurs.

Has anyone else seen this?

What is your Windows and FreeCommander version?

Windows 11 25H2 and the latest FreeCommander donor version.

Is view type List or Details?

It's Details.

Check the column profile for your detail view https://freecommander.com/fchelpxe/en/C ... files.html
Is the "Max. Width" for the Name column set to 0? If no, try with 0.

The name was set to 69 characters. I set it to 0, but still same behaviour.

Could you send me your freecommander.ini file?

I sent it via PM.

My file name was to short.
I see it now, the file name must be very long.
It seems for me, it is not the FreeCommander problem.
I dropped the file to Windows Explorer and the result was the same - clipped file name.

So, this is a Windows issue?

Rather Thunderbird.

Yes, this is a intentional TB behaviour. FreeCommander has no issue.

I apologize for the noise.