Hi Kate, I'd try a few things first before going with the drastic reinstall. First, try copying one of those files to your Desktop, then see if you can rename it there. This will help to determine if it is an OS issue or simply something with the external HD. Second, try restarting your computer to see if that helps. Third, restart it with the PRAM reset. Do this by restarting your computer and as the startup chime is sounding, press down the cmd-option-r and p keys simultaneously. Yes, it's a lot of fingers but it is possible. Try putting your thumb across the cmd and option keys then use your left index on the "r" key and right pinky on the "p" key. It will make the screen do some funky things that us blind folks don't see but keep holding the combination down for three extra startup chimes before letting them go.
Let me know how it goes. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2013-02-21, at 6:00 AM, cait furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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