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Adilegian
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 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: The above file name is invalid |
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I keep getting that message when I try to open a handful of files with very long names. (I'm trying to convert some .ogg files into .mp3 so I can burn them onto a music CD with the software I've got.) When I try to rename the files, WinXP won't let me. How the hell can I get these things working?
I've had similar problems in the past with some MS Word docs for work that used kana and kanji in the filenames, so I don't know if this is an issue with the length of the filenames or the characters used in the file names themselves.
Any ideas?
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Dark Age Iron Savior
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:23 am |
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Copy the original file names to a txt file
GO into a command prompt
do something like...
ren 12*.ogg bob.ogg
to rename track 12
and so on?
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Adilegian
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:41 am |
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| Dark Age Iron Savior wrote: |
Copy the original file names to a txt file
GO into a command prompt
do something like...
ren 12*.ogg bob.ogg
to rename track 12
and so on? |
Okay. I'll give this a shot.
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Predator Goose
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:57 am |
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If that doesn't work then the problem may be that the path is too long. So you can try to shorten the names of the directories that it is in, and then try to rename the file.
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Adilegian
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:28 am |
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I couldn't get DAIS's suggestion to work, but Predator Goose's did work out. I ultimately had to move the entire folder to my laptop's root in order for even the OS to recognize the filename....
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Rud31
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Adilegian
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:06 am |
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| Rud13 wrote: |
| dude you need to use shorter filenames |
I didn't write the original file name! I'm very practical in this regard, if any.
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Toups
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:53 pm |
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did you download that fiona apple album or something?
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BenoitRen
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:39 pm |
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The folders in Windows XP have long folder names themselves. Like "Documents & Settings", "Temporary Internet Files", etc. Your My Documents folder and its sub folders are under "Documents & Settings. A year back I read the summary of a comparison of long file name support in Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. Windows supports file names as long as 255 characters. The catch is that this includes the path to the file.
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Adilegian
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:23 pm |
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| Mister Toups wrote: |
| did you download that fiona apple album or something? |
SHHHHHH!
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Toups
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:25 pm |
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Oh man was I right?
I hear that album's actually pretty good, you know.
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Adilegian
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:37 pm |
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| Mister Toups wrote: |
Oh man was I right?
I hear that album's actually pretty good, you know. |
Ha! No, no, I kid.
I grabbed some albums of Renaissance choral music written by Gilles Binchois and Guillaume Dufay. It's okay, but I prefer the instrumental music of the period moreso than the vocal.
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