Ok, I'll give it a go later when i have a sec. Thanks. Cait On 2013-02-20, at 1:26 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
> Hmmm. Worked fine for me. I had a file named 'junk'. I hit return on it and > pasted in your file name. It asked if I really wanted to change the file > ending to .mp3 which I gave it the OK to do. One little odd thing is that > when I hit return on a file that already ends in .mp3, it only selects the > text before the .mp3. So if I took junk.mp3, copied your filename text, hit > enter on junk.mp3 and hit paste I would actually end up with a filed called > 03. crawl-Chris Brown.mp3.mp3 which is not what I intended. To avoid this, > hit enter then do a select all (command-A) and then do paste to make sure > you're replacing the entire old filename with your new one. It still > shouldn't give you an error. Actually, under the hood the OS added .mp3 to > the file so my final file was really 03. crawl-Chris Brown.mp3.mp3.mp3 which > is not what I wanted. To really know what the OS has named the file I had to > get info and then turn off the "Hide Extension" checkbox right after the file > name. Hope this helps. > > CB > > On 2/20/13 1:04 PM, cait furness wrote: >> 03. crawl-Chris Brown.mp3 >> I'm running mountain lion, the latest version. >> >> As I said, when I try forename the file, all I do is take out the track >> number and leave the rest. It's worked for me before today. >> Thanks a bunch. >> Cait >> >> On 2013-02-20, at 12:56 PM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >>> Can you paste in a sample file name so we can try to reproduce the issue? >>> Also, what version of OSX are you running? >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 2/20/13 12:52 PM, cait furness wrote: >>>> that's just it, the file name is just like this: first name last name song >>>> title.mp3 >>>> that's it. It's always worked. they're not longer then 255 characters, I >>>> know that for sure. AllI'm doing is removing any track numbers if they're >>>> there, because for some reason they bug me if I'm keeping the files for >>>> later use. this has never happened until today. Now, how do I fix this >>>> so I can continue to rename files? >>>> Stumped, >>>> Cait >>>> >>>> On 2013-02-20, at 11:17 AM, Georgina Joyce <r...@o2.co.uk> 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. 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