Existing users, 
This may help with separate/independant files but not with those their name was chosen on purpose, their name does more than just being fun.
Which kind of help is it when you loose, maybe, the dates of fotos, the sorting numbering, the names of persons, ...
What would help is: The app has to add two informations.
First write/add the original name into the comment field within the file information (both OS 9 and OS X).
Second and most important it has to create a protocol file or similar in which it puts a "translation list" which allows, besides of peeking in manually, the app to re-translate the filenames when they are sent back to OS X.
And you must have a wide range of settings to adapt name changing to your comfort.
In any case there must be a reliable documentation about what happened to your filenames for being able to reproduce the canges.
In the recent version this app is unseless, though.
Still quite useless - dglass
I think 'useless' is a bit harsh, but as one of the developers perhaps I'm biased.Some of your ideas have merit, and make sense to add. Others, not so much.
I think capturing the 'old' name in the Comments field is a good idea, as is creating an 'activity' file that shows what files were altered.
On the other hand, reverting file names (short -> long) is, in my opinion, beyond the scope of this utility. If there were heavy demand for such functionality it would probably manifest itself in a separate application (92X perhaps).
Thanks for commenting.
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Friday, May 18 2007 @ 02:08 PM PDT