There's always repair permissions in Disk Utility which often times
clears up weirdnesses.
CB
On 2/21/13 9:47 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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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