Hi Tim, Yep, it's on an external drive, but it's formatted mac extended journal. I'm getting some other weird stuff happening now, though, like not being able to empty the trash with an error code of -50 and just wonder if they are somehow related. I really don't want to reinstall the OS, which is what happened the last time I called apple when stuff like this happened. I did find out that in the file name I was trying to rename yesterday, for some reason, there's a dot at the very beginning that for some reason I can't edit out, so that's probably the culprit, but still.. Cait
On 2013-02-21, at 12:14 AM, Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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