From d1bbd2c498f528d6d7bd53fb65f5909987bb8573 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:34:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #6764 (maximum_recursion_depth on shorten_components_to
 (function recursively calls itself on the same data))

---
 src/calibre/utils/filenames.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/utils/filenames.py b/src/calibre/utils/filenames.py
index 01eb9f30a0..9fd57ab53c 100644
--- a/src/calibre/utils/filenames.py
+++ b/src/calibre/utils/filenames.py
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ def shorten_components_to(length, components):
         else:
             if x is components[-1]:
                 b, _, e = x.rpartition('.')
+                if not b and e:
+                    b = e
+                    e = ''
                 r = b[:-delta]+e
                 if r.startswith('.'): r = x[0]+r
             else: