95 character long filenames...

[nlynx76]

Distant coworkers have recently tossed any and all naming conventions out the window. I was directed towards a file on the server whose filename was *95* characters long, including the '.indd' ...

Next thing you know I'll be getting filenames written as haikus...

[duck]

If you think that's a problem, our server will not let us copy file names over a certain number of characters (I think it's around 30).

Sounds nice, but when I get customers disks with ridiculously long file names I have to copy to a desktop, usually change olders from read only to read/write, then change the names to a shortened version, then copy to server - then try to re-link everything that I've renamed.

We have a client that sells fine art. They name thier scans with the artists name, painting name, thier item number, date modified and the .tif extension. They almost need to hire a typesetter just to name files.

[Joe]

Go to the server and copy the files from the disk. You will still have issues with the Mac not recognizing the name and you will have to re-link them as long as you are using appletalk but you can copy them without having to rename them.

Oh...and the limit on the number of characters is 31.

[pspdfppd]

Yeah I'm getting the same problem sometimes when I'm working on OSX and copying files back to os9 for whatever reason. It says " the "so and so" file contains too many characters so I have to go back in osx and shorten the name and relink or whatever. Seems to be the price of doing business these days. I can't remember if the pc server has the same problem but maybe....

[Joe]

If the drive is setup as an NTFS share then the limit is 256 characters.