yep, and I've done that about three times now. In fact, it was the first thing I did. Not sure why it didn't fix things up. I've also rebooted a few times as well. *shrug* lol, oh, well, no matter, things are humming along now. Sometimes you just have to get another wrench. Cait
On 2013-02-21, at 2:05 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]> 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]> 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]> 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]> 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. 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