[G4] Truncated Filenames from Windows? - off topic butcurious

[Jonathan I. Nori]

Hi!

One thing to note: there are certain characters (and file name lengths) that Macs will not accept that Windows will let you get away with. A couple examples of this are commas, slashes, quotation marks, and ampersands (&). Macs *really* don't like these in the filename, as well as some other non-letter/number characters. Macs also tend to really dislike Windows files with names over 28 characters. Windows will allow you to have up to 256 characters in a file name (depending on it's location within the file system and the version of Windows). If I remember correctly, OS9 will allow you to rename files that don't conform to its naming structure, but will prevent you from opening the file until you rename it.

Hope this helps!

Jon  8^)


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>>> steveo at omsoft.com 01/14/03 11:43AM >>>
Anne Keller-Smith wrote:

> I had a couple suggestions, among which was to download the files
> to her laptop, running Windows 98, if there was enough hard drive
> space. She said this wasn't possible because the hard drives are
> a different standard.

No, it should work fine, and it should be able to keep the long filenames.

> I have felt stupid on occasion giving advice to Windows folks,
> because they can't do quite a bit, or at least I don't know how
> to do it.

Being a recent "switcher", I found I had to resist doing things I would 
have had to do in windoze, and instead let the Mac do it if it even 
needed doing at all.

> The other question, which is on topic, is whether there are
> any similar glitches moving from OS9 to X. There haven't
> seemed to be any, from my limited experience going back
> and forth between Dad's machine running OS X.1.1 and mine
> running 9.2.1. Files go back and forth just fine.

I have 9.2.2 and X.1.5, and altough I prefer X, I have to go back and 
forth; it's pretty painless.



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