X29-Renamer - 1.6

I have a Buffalo Linkstation network drive attached (via Ethernet) to my Airport Extreme's LAN port. Using my Powerbook to edit audio, animation, etc makes it totally required for external storage- no pesky wires allowed either! Wireless only...
My wacky descriptive naming of my art items would prevent some of them from being stored on the Buffalo Linkstation. I'd get tiresome error dialogs and the transfer would stop till I located the problem file name. (if there were too many characters, or a "/" or "*" or "?" was in the name it got rejected)
For files to reside on the Linkstation, they must have OS9- Windows friendly names. One computer on our network boots into OS9, and if I used it to transfer the files to the Linkstation it would work- but the extra step took more time, and worse- the all-important file extensions would be mangled- I'd have to guess if the thing was a gif or psd or tif when I opened them from the Linkstation. And the forbidden characters mentioned above doomed their transfer no matter what. Very bothersome!
Thanks to this little miracle app, X29, all I have to do is drop the folders on it, , and ZAPPO! they happily migrate to their new home- file extensions, custom icons, permissions intact. The few files rejected were easily repaired by removing the "?" or relaxing the "group" permissions of the item to "Read-Write" This app saved me much time. Thank you for creating such a priceless tool. I'm really ∞∞∞ grateful for your awesome work!

author for adding droplet functionality in that the program exits after the progam has finished its job.

In reading some of the other feedback, perhaps Binosama's idea of a report file isn't such a bad idea that details which files (if any) were changed each time the program is used.

Binosama...although you may already know this, the idea behind X29 is to shorten file names to satisfy the SFM/AFP protocol file name length requirements.

If you need to be able to see such things as names, numbers, or dates that exist in the name of a file or folder, then perhaps shortening file names is not the solution for you. Perhaps ExtremeZ-IP (or other AppleShare-based file server replacement) would be to your advantage (although a bit more expensive) that would eliminate the need to shorten file names.

It's funny, but utilities always appear when I need them! Sort of spontaneously, like mushrooms after a rainfall. X29 is one such tool. A few days after a customer complained about how files with long names get truncated for OS 9 (they still have a legacy OS 9 server for some accounting software) this utility appears, and now they are MUCH happier.

Great stuff.