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Re: Filenames... Truncation to 32chars. and Replacing TroublesomeText
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Re: Filenames... Truncation to 32chars. and Replacing TroublesomeText


  • Subject: Re: Filenames... Truncation to 32chars. and Replacing TroublesomeText
  • From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:18:29 -0700

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:23:45 -0500, Wade Cady <email@hidden>
said:

>I have a 120 GB volume that is a rudimentary fileserver which runs on a
>mac with Panther. I have another disk, recently purchased, that I want
>to serve those files until we get a grasp on future file serving
>possibilities and solutions. Thing is, this mac is running OS 9, due to
>an archiving system that isn't broken I don't want to upgrade it ...
>yet. The actual issue is... I want to copy all the files from disk one
>(OS X) to disk two (OS 9.2.2 I believe).... but some file's filenames
>on the original volume are more than 32 characters.
>
>Now. I have found a script on http://www.macscripter.net that Solves
>this.

The problem you're having has nothing to do with AppleScript. When you
connect two computers using file sharing, the server advertises file names
using its own file system. There is no way that Mac OS X can look at a
remote computer running Mac OS 9 and see or provide long file names on that
computer.

The script you propose to use doesn't solve the problem - it changes the
names!

The solution is to start the Mac OS 9 computer up in firewire target mode,
hooked to the Mac OS X computer. Now the Mac OS X computer sees the Mac OS 9
hard drive as an ordinary hard drive. You can now back up to that drive with
preservation of long file names, because Mac OS X is in charge of both
disks. m.

--
matt neuburg, phd = email@hidden, <http://www.tidbits.com/matt/>
A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool!
AppleScript: the Definitive Guide
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005571/somethingsbymatt>



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