very long filenames

[kjk]

Hi Folks,

I have large collection of JPG and PDF files that need to have very
long descriptive filenames so other people can know immediately what
they contain. I've done some testing and found that if I try to burn
a file to a CD or DVD with a very long filename, the filename is
truncated at the 100 character point, including the extension, so that
seems to be an ISO limitation, which is OK. I don't want to go
through the whole process, however, only to find that I encounter some
other problem that would prevent me from doing this.

My question is . . . does anybody know of any problems that may be
caused by using 100 character filenames? Any advice would be much
appreciated. Thanks.

Ken

 

[PopS]

I just let windows do the rename it suggests is appropriate - no
problems yet. WGLLT.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

About CD File Systems and File Names
http://www.roxio.com/en/support/cdr/filesystems.html

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

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[Mike Williams]

My question is . . . does anybody know of any problems that may be
caused by using 100 character filenames? Any advice would be much
appreciated. Thanks.

Well it's difficult to randomly copy them from one folder to another as
you may just hit a folder with a very long name. Remember that "My
Documents" is really C:\Documents & Settings\<ProfileName>\My Documents.
There could be issues accessing the files from certain web servers due
to their path limits.

You may also hit programs that are badly written/tested with hard-coded
limits to file names or paths that are less than the system limits.

I believe some file/folder compression programs don't deal with them
very well.

In some views (especially in File Open/Save dialogs) you may have
trouble reading the entire file name. If you have to disambiguate some
files based on the last few characters of the filename then you've got
problems.

 

[Mike Williams]

My question is . . . does anybody know of any problems that may be
caused by using 100 character filenames? Any advice would be much
appreciated. Thanks.

Well it's difficult to randomly copy them from one folder to another as
you may just hit a folder with a very long name. Remember that "My
Documents" is really C:\Documents & Settings\<ProfileName>\My Documents.
There could be issues accessing the files from certain web servers due
to their path limits.

You may also hit programs that are badly written/tested with hard-coded
limits to file names or paths that are less than the system limits.

I believe some file/folder compression programs don't deal with them
very well.

In some views (especially in File Open/Save dialogs) you may have
trouble reading the entire file name. If you have to disambiguate some
files based on the last few characters of the filename then you've got
problems.