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Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
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Re: Long Filenames with Applescript


  • Subject: Re: Long Filenames with Applescript
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:40:18 -0800

Nigel Smith wrote:

>Not having OS X to try this on, but does it support 255 character file
>names, or 255 character *paths*? If the former, is there a maximum path
>length?

We're talking about HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) here:

255 character names. (Therefore longer paths.) And they are Unicode
characters, by the way (and have been since HFS+ came out.) [Unless they
are 256. Most of us won't use the last character, whichever it is.]

--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA


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