link in email produces wrong file

[mvolvano]

I'm storing pdf files on my website of issues of a newsletter. I send links to these issues via email. Occasionally, I will get a response from someone I've sent a link to saying that a different issue downloaded from the one the text would indicate. I am typing the exact url and when I copy and paste, I get the correct file. I'm not using hyperlinks or anything. Has anyone heard of this? I'm sure it must be some kind of error, but it seems odd that one file would be swapped with another.

Thanks for your help.

 

[shmoes]

This is just a total uneducated guess .. but who knows ..

1) are all the files in the same root?
2) are they all named similarly up to the 8.3 filename for older systems?

for example

troubleshooting_networks.pdf
and
troubleshooting_computers.pdf

Althougth they're different filenames is it possible that the person is using an old system/browser seeing as it's not every person .. and it's just picking the first one because it's alphabeticly in order under 8.3

filename = troubles.pdf
instead of seeing it as troubl~1.pdf and troubl~2.pdf

does that make any sense or am i just talkin out my butt



Andre


~Shmoes

I lay claim to nothing and everything. My words may be wisdom or disaster. In the end you make a choice. Noone is perfect.

 

[mvolvano]

You are right, the files all have similar names and are in the same folder, so that must be what is happening.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by 8.3 filenames. I'm guessing that was an old limit to the length of a filename and longer ones are truncated?

Anyway, I was just not sure if this was even a kind of error that could happen, so you've answered my question.

Thanks!