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Product Description:
The Mac OS9 Finder and most OS 9 applications (and ASIP file servers) have a maximum character limitation of 31 for either file or folder names. Mac OSX allow much longer file names than does Mac OS9.
At best these longer file or folder names get truncated with names ending in what is "gibberish". At worst, when attempting to copy a folder containing a few of these files with longer names, the copy will be prevented thereby requiring the user to locate the problematic files. In folders with many files this can become a time consuming task.
This simple drop application was created to take those OSX "unfriendly" long names and truncate them, including and respecting any file extension, to the 31 characters that OS9 accepts. In addition, to avoid name conflicts, the program will uniquely number each file or folder before the extension up to a maximum of 999.
Just drop the folder or the files on top of the application and the rest is handled automatically. You can then be assured of no random names being generated and all files uniquely named and numbered as well.
If you have hundreds files, the process can take a bit of time and as long as the application is running (check your DOCK) it is still doing its job although you may have full control of your mouse.
If there are any errors, a log file will be created on your desktop detailing the problem.
At best these longer file or folder names get truncated with names ending in what is "gibberish". At worst, when attempting to copy a folder containing a few of these files with longer names, the copy will be prevented thereby requiring the user to locate the problematic files. In folders with many files this can become a time consuming task.
This simple drop application was created to take those OSX "unfriendly" long names and truncate them, including and respecting any file extension, to the 31 characters that OS9 accepts. In addition, to avoid name conflicts, the program will uniquely number each file or folder before the extension up to a maximum of 999.
Just drop the folder or the files on top of the application and the rest is handled automatically. You can then be assured of no random names being generated and all files uniquely named and numbered as well.
If you have hundreds files, the process can take a bit of time and as long as the application is running (check your DOCK) it is still doing its job although you may have full control of your mouse.
If there are any errors, a log file will be created on your desktop detailing the problem.
What's new in this version:
- Although the comments made on one download site were a bit "nasty", some of the ideas mentioned had merit so with that said, we have added the following to version 1.4:
- Injects the old (pre-conversion) file name into the file's Comments/Spotlight Comments field like so: X29 activity: Old Name: "file's old name". It adds this information to the end of whatever comments are already present (it does not destroy any existing comments).
- Creates a plain-text activity file (X29 Activity) on the user's desktop showing which files were altered, and the result. For example, A really long file name was here.txt shortened to A really long file name-001.txt.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
Additional Requirements:
- Tested on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5
- but should work with all OS X versions. Disk image compression compatible with OSX 10.1 and later.
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Download X29-Renamer Version 1.4 (File Size: 34k)
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| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Thanks to the… - Version: 1.3, 5/17/2007 06:18AM PST
jmorgan2246
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.
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.
Thanks to the… - Version: 1.3, 5/17/2007 06:18AM PST
jmorgan2246
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.
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.
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!