Bug - Can't open images in subfolders with ä ö ü in folder name since macOS 11 about creevey

[gobbledegook]

Hi, I'm not able to reproduce this. I'm able to navigate to a directory like this with no problem on macOS 14:

/Users/myname/Desktop/files/further ideas/businesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusinesscardsbusi/products türen/01.jpg

yes, that directory in the middle has a name with 251 characters!

Is this issue still happening for you?

[gkertai]

A possible explanation…

There was a bug in the Big Sur 11.7.5 security update (not sure if / when it was fixed), which caused file names with NFC normalization refuse to open. This affected many of my files with accented characters on multiple different volumes.

According to this post HFS+ file names (and presumably APFS too) must be in decomposed form, but apparently macOS was previously more lenient about it.

This was causing me problems across many different applications. I ended up using convmv to fix the file names (available via Homebrew).

[gobbledegook]

That is so delightfully obscure! I feel bad for those affected by this bug, but practically speaking I don't see how I can fix/workaround this without a way to reproduce the issue...

[gobbledegook]

Closing since this has presumably been fixed in a later version of macOS. If people are still running into this problem I will need detailed instructions on how to reproduce this, or somehow get my hands on a configuration that has this issue.