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Ryan H.43
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12 months ago
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The filenames of a folder that another user shared with me appear truncated.

When I go to a folder that some one shares with me it gives me a list where the file names are cut off.  I end up having to either download the whole thing or look through files one by one to tell if...
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  • Jodi S.3's avatar
    Jodi S.3
    11 months ago

    I found the issue. In the page styles, the table layout is set to "fixed." If I disable that, it looks normal. Perhaps the developers can remove that or override it for Windows 10.

     

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Ryan H.43
Explorer | Level 4
12 months ago

screen shots of windows vs mac list

 

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Hannah
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12 months ago

Thanks for the update and the screenshots, Ryan H.43.

Is it possible that your browser is perhaps zoomed in on the Windows computer?

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    Ryan H.43
    Explorer | Level 4
    12 months ago

    Both browsers are set to the same zoom setting.  Both machines have the newest browser updates. Potentially I could have some system thing on windows that is scaling things but everything else seems the same.

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    Ryan H.43
    Explorer | Level 4
    12 months ago

    I found a system scale setting that I reset and now the page is fine.  Woot.  Thanks.  

    • Hannah's avatar
      Hannah
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      12 months ago

      Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Ryan!

      I'm happy to see that you were able to resolve this.

      If you come across any other issues, let us know.

      Have a great day!

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