#10141 NORM Not Tri: trac does not display content of local directory that has file I wish to attach to ticket

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#10141: trac does not display content of local directory that has file I wish to
attach to ticket
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 Reporter:  mikus   |                 Owner:  Quozl        
     Type:  defect  |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal  |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  trac    |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:          |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0       |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:          |              Blocking:               
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 I currently interact with trac using Firefox 3.0.16 (from user root) in a
 desktop system running SuSE 11.1.  I upload files to directory /root/fetch
 from my XOs - then want to have trac "attach" such files to the tickets I
 am writing.

 Had uploaded file  logs.SHC9370111D.2010-05-01.04-15-50.tar.bz2  to
 /root/fetch.  When I clicked on 'Browse' in the "attach file" webpage for
 a ticket, trac opened a smaller window supposedly showing me the content
 of the /root/fetch directory - but the data portion of that window was
 empty (as though /root/fetch contained no files).

 I tried pasting the "logs.SHC9370111D.2010-05-01.04-15-50.tar.bz2" string
 into the 'Select' (or whatever) input_field at the top of that window,
 then clicking on the 'Open' button at the bottom of that window.  But trac
 told me "Cannot attach empty file" (there seemed to be a blank prefixed to
 the string I thought I was trying to paste).

 I finally made a copy (in /root/fetch) of that file - giving that copy a
 name that I could remember.  I then again clicked on 'Browse' in the
 "attach file" webpage, and when trac opened the (still empty) window
 showing /root/fetch, I started to fill in that easier name into the
 'Select' (or whatever) input_field at the top of that window.  trac auto-
 completed the name, I clicked on the 'Open' button on the bottom of that
 window - and trac accepted the file to the ticket I was working on.

 MUCH too much trouble to simply attach a file to a trac ticket.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10141>
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