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Mike Harrison
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 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:16 pm Post subject: Maximum filename character count |
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What is the maximum number of characters your audio software will allow in filenames? Please state your software, platform and the count. Because there are only, what, a handful of a s out there, if you see your software/platform already stated, there's no need to state it again.
Thanks muchly! I appreciate the feedback.
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Lizden
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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SoundForge 8 / PC:
I have had very long file names and have never reached the limit as of yet.
It does NOT allow the "/" (yes, I KNOW that's a FORWARD slash!) in a file name though.
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Scott Pollak
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, so how many other folks remember in the early '90's, yeah, the years of the 386 / 486 pcs with mammoth hard drives of, maybe, 250mb, when all file names were limited to 8 characters? I actually bought a program back then that would allow you to save file names longer than 8 characters.
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Lizden
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I remember those days.
And when you couldn't have spaces in the names.
(I still use underscores out of habit)
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Lizden
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I remember those days.
And when you couldn't have spaces in the names.
(I still use underscores out of habit)
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Scott Pollak
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Liz, re: underscores: I do, too! (still use 'em out of habit, that is!)
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Mike Harrison
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If/when a filename becomes part of a URL, spaces are translated into, many times, 3 characters. From the W3 Schools (the largest web developers site on the Internet)
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp:
| Quote: | Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format.
URL encoding replaces unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits.
URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a + sign. |
I've never seen the +, but most often I see spaces replaced by %20, so I think the idea of using underscores is a good one!
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| Scott and Liz: Yep, I remember those days too and still use underscores. |
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I was not in the habit of using underscores. However, an off-handed remark somebody made in a session at Faffcon 2 got me thinking about file names and from that time forward I started using underscores in place of spaces. By coincidence, I experienced a bit of a surge in P2P jobs landed shortly after adopting the practice. Knowing that P2P success is largely a crapshoot, I can't really say this change had anything to do with it, but I can't say for sure that it didn't.
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i got up to 100 in AA 5.5 and quit.
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