Hi, Is the file on an external HD? Sometimes, if the external HD is formatted MSDOS instead of HFS you'll get that sort of error.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-02-20, at 11:28 AM, cait furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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