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Re: Long Filenames >31 error -37
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Re: Long Filenames >31 error -37


  • Subject: Re: Long Filenames >31 error -37
  • From: Michael Vogt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:09:58 -0500

On Jul 19, 2004, at 12:00 AM, email@hidden wrote:

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:13:21 +0200
To: AppleScript Users <email@hidden>
From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Long Filenames >31 error -37

At 7:06 AM +0200 18/07/04, Ronald Hofmann wrote:
Hi everybody,
in one of my methods Im dealing with filenames. As soon as I come across a long filename (>31) like:
"MacOSX:Users:ronny:Desktop:Doks:Dido - Thank You (Thunders3233.mp3"

I get an error:
Bad name for file. MacOSX:Users:ronny:Desktop:Doks:Dido - Thank You (Thunders3233.mp3 (-37)

As far as I know the Finder can handle filenames longer than 31. What can I do? Any ideas?

Is there a error code table somewhere to look up error codes?

If you use Smile, pull down User scripts > More menu bar > Scripting > Error information.

-37 is bad name for a file and nothing else (documented with the additional optimistic comment "/*there may be no bad names in the final system!*/").

Isn't your instruction inside some "tell app" wrapper?

Emmanuel


Makes me think there's a character in the file name that AppleScript doesn't like. I would try:
1. Retyping the name of the file in the finder in case there are any invisible characters.
2. Start eliminating non-alphabet characters: '(' or '-'.


Mike
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