Interesting. I don't usually share folders between my VMWare and the Mac
just because I don't want Windows messing with things on my Mac. Makes
me wonder if VMWare didn't set some flags on the folder. Have you tried
turning the folder sharing in VMWare off just to see if that makes a
difference
Hi Chris, Tim and others,
Just to clarify, I'm trying to save files on the hard drive of my macbook air.
That problem had never arisen until fairly recently, that's why I'm confused.
After I had read your responses, I experimented a bit and tried to change a
file name in one of the folders of m
Just tried saving a textedit doc into icloud with the filename of "this
is a really long file name to see if I get an error" and there was no
error. So I don't think iCloud has any 31 character file limits. The 31
character limit that I know of goes back to the days of MacOS 7 and the
HFS forma
Hi,
Try saving the document to the Desktop. When you do the cmd-s to Save, press
cmd-shift-d to set the save location to the Desktop. Try a longer than 31
character title there. I’m wondering if TextEdit is trying to save your
document to iCloud,, and if that could cause this sort of error m
Hello Anne,
That is the strange issue: I'm trying to save to the hard drive the way
I've always done. And suddenly this message when trying to do it in
TextEdit. It threw me completely.
Maybe it will settle down. If you don't know what might have gone wrong
with your experience, I think it m
Hello Andrew,
Are you, by any chance, trying to save to a USB stick or external drive
formatted as FAT32? That would explain your problem.
Cheers,
Anne
On 21 Jan 2014, at 14:51, Andrew Lamanche wrote:
> Listers,
>
> Just recently, every time I try to save a file in let’s say TextEdit, I ge
Listers,
Just recently, every time I try to save a file in let’s say TextEdit, I get a
warning message that files with names longer than 31 characters cannot be saved
on this system/volume. It didn’t used to happen. Have I changed some settings
without knowing? If yes, where are they? Has anyon
