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Tends to be pretty useless under OS X
Authored by: ikari on Nov 08, '01 08:30:52PM

If you will notice, this version doesn't support long filenames, it's only does filenames under 32 characters, like classic Mac OS.

Considering the whole point of the utility is to perform operations on filenames, I'd be pretty annoyed if i paid the shareware fee only to later discover this.



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Interesting...
Authored by: robg on Nov 09, '01 02:56:31AM

I'd only been using it on my digital camera files, which are all under 32 characters. I hadn't even noticed the restriction. I'll inquire with the author and see if he's working on a fix of any kind.

I must not tend to use super long filenames very often, as I obviously hadn't even seen the bug yet!

-rob.



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Interesting...
Authored by: ikari on Nov 10, '01 09:51:58AM

I was using it on mp3s that I ripped on my Windows box and couldn't be bothered re-ripping, was planning to lay them out in the iTunes style ~/Documents/iTunes/iTunes Music/artist/album/title.mp3 way, hence was planning on using ABFR to strip off the unwanted information from the mp3 filename.

Oh well, guess i'll just have to wait for an update, thanks for asking the author about it.



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Response from the author
Authored by: robg on Nov 10, '01 10:27:38AM

Here's what he had to say in an email I just received:

"The long file name issue is something that we didn't catch in the first OS X release because our test cases are cross-platform (OS9 and OSX). The issue has now been largely resolved in the release which is due on Wednesday [Nov 14] (all file names are now correctly renamed) and there will be some further work on the issue in the next releases (all fields will have 255 character, etc.)."

Good news!

-rob.



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Response from the author
Authored by: bhines on Nov 10, '01 07:15:11PM

So the answer was no, it won't be fixed for the next release, sounds like.



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