Is MacOS giving the error or is the player? MacOS lets you use anything
except a leading period. Files starting with a period are hidden so you
normally wouldn't want to name something that way. I even made a test
file called '\"/{}[].mp3 and it OSX was just fine with it.
CB
On 2/20/13 11:17 AM, Georgina Joyce wrote:
Hello,
That's interesting. Unix does use filenames that start with a period,
although, it would be inappropriate to name a audio file in this
manner. My guess is that there's an apostrophe in the name. To
maintain the character precede it with a backslash.
HTH
Gena
On 20/02/2013 16:01, Chris Blouch wrote:
There is a 255 character limit and I think the only limitation is that
it can't start with a period. So there normally should be no reason you
can't fit everything in the filename. Details about Apple's HFS+ format
here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus
CB
On 2/20/13 7:14 AM, cait furness wrote:
Hi,
I'm having a problem renaming files. I am going through some mp3
files I have and renaming some of them. Basically, I hit enter on
them and take off the track number and then add the artist to the song
name. this has worked fine in the past with no problems. This
morning, however, I am getting an error message which is saying that
the file name is too long or has punctuation. I have checked and
double checked and there is no punctuation in the file name except for
the dot before the extension of mp3. The file name can't be too long
as it's just the artist name and the song title and this has worked
before. I have done a verify disk and have repaired disk permissions.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Caitlyn
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