Dear Wamugers,

I am trying to find a way to deal with filenames longer than 31 
characters.

Till now I have done it the hard way. 
Manually renaming them. 
Mainly Mp3s and saved Web pages (if we forget to shorten the name 
while saving that is:(

Creating backups this way is a big job, going through and checking 
all the files.

I wish there was an extension or something..........

We are using OS 8.6 connected to Win2k via Dave 2.5.1.

Our number one problem is creating CD backups using the Mac.
I long to be able to just drop network folders straight into Toast 
4.1. but presently the mangling done to the long filenames is a major 
off-put.

Any tips or solutions will be hugely appreciated.

Thanks
Paul and Vicki