On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:53:57 -0400, nemesis wrote:

> I may be spelling it wrong, but I think it was something like
> 
AEislkjkakljkasisbrewewolsuidzhoisah7682jhKjhkasjhiosubasaskfhbsaioasoisodnbsUIJjkajssuiIilklslalkjnsaewollAyehjhashsii
> wwerYuygvskkjwesq.jpg
> or something like that.
> 
> I don't remember if there were special characters in it, but I was able
> to use autocomplete in bash and just mv it to a sane filename.  Gnome
> file manager just froze and did not come back.  OTOH, it was a distro
> from 2007 though I don't see any particular reason as to why even in
> 2007 very long names should pose a problem.

Yeah, that is weird, definitely shouldn't have been a problem.

Jim

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