Despite my best efforts at the source end of a particular work flow, for a sound archiving project, we are still getting long file names from PC users on our team...where Windows allows, e.g.
GD_dharmapuram_speech-02-04-83.aif
Since these have been burned onto a CD, that data is not as "moldable" as we would like and ideally it could remain the same for future cataloging purposes. I could truncate the file names in a cataloging process, but then any library system starts to break down as catalog entries are no longer a precise match for the original file names on CD.
As you can see I was able to save this file from a CD to a hard drive on Mac OS X, the underlying OS File system accepts the overlong name. I can view the long file name in the Finder and even copy it and paste into this messsage.
but:
my button "Select and Audio File"
global theTape
on mouseUp
answer file "Locate the sound file you want to transcribe."&\
"(Must be playable by QuickTime)" with "OK"
if it is empty then exit mouseUp
put it into theTape
put theTape into fld "soundfile"
set the filename of player "theTape" to theTape
send postTime to this stack in 2 seconds
end mouseUpReturns this in the field in my Rev sound processor, auto truncating the file name to the "old" mac standard of 31 characters... using some hashed algorithm.
/Varuna/Sound_Projects/India/GD_dharmapuram_speec#11150F.aif
So, as we work to constrain original filename input into process work flow to 31 characters... invariably some files may squeak through and be too long...
is there any way I can force Revolution to ignore the mac constraint? I would seem that the underlying Unix system of OS X really is not really enforcing the file length constraint anyway.
I also face this in other mac apps... particularly mail.app which breaks Apples's own convention and allows me to save incoming email letters to the editor with the subject line, which are frequently
over length...
e.g. Regarding Mr. Agrawals Comments on the Caste System.txt
then when I try to process these in Rev... i'll get a hashed down version.
"Regarding Mr. Agrawa#123245.txt"
help!
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