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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. I have done a verify disk and have repaired disk permissions.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Caitlyn
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