RE: OS X Name Extensions
RE: OS X Name Extensions
- Subject: RE: OS X Name Extensions
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:17:00 +0200
At 8:21 PM +0200 09/10/02, Mike Fischer wrote:
"Abstraction" as you called it happens when an application (pre Mac
OS X Finder for example) accesses a long filename on a HFS+ volume
using older FileManager APIs. Then the name is shortened to 31
characters and includes the HFS file id of the file prefixed by a #
at the end of the name. Also the conversion from Unicode to MacRoman
may cause unexpected results. For example a name "This is a very
long file name to be seen only on HFS+ volumes" might be shortened
to "This is a very long file #14283" when viewed through the older
FileManger APIs.
My 0.02 Euros caveat here: those files with "#14283" at the end of
the name seem rather delicate to handle. I don't know when exactly,
but under 9.2.2 I experienced numerous crashes when manipulating such
files. Maybe when copying them from a volume to another, so that the
#blabla needs changing?
Emmanuel
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