File name limit/character case

Good morning to all! Is there truly a 25 character FILE name
limit for RH? I've been advised by Adobe that there is...but this
is truly news to me after 10 years of working with RH. Its very
painful to fit names into that limit when you have over 1000 topics
in a project! But I renamed everything...carefully using
MixedCharacterCase to try to establish order. Saving often! But
then when I had to reimport files after rebuilding the .cpd file
the MixedCharacterCase had turned to mixedcharactercase for many
files. Ugh! Truly unreadable!
So...is 25 characters truly a requirement? And...how to you
force RH to remember the MixedCharacterCase for the File name?
Help!...and THANK YOU!!!!

Hi Peter. Yes you did. But since I called Adobe and asked for
help and they SWORE that the 25 character limit was in fact law...I
decided I needed to try it to make sure it was not the solution I
was seeking. If I say No to their suggestions...I'm concerned that
they will tell me that they can't help me...and I absolutely,
positively need help with this project. 4-8 minutes to save a
single image name, 5+ minutes to import a simply HTML
file...ugh...life is miserable. So...I gave this a try.
But when I rebuilt the .cpd file using the .hhk file and it
lost 90% of the project even with those cute unreadable short file
names I knew I was in trouble. So I decided to ask this group
formally if 25 was really the limit, get the concensus and then
respectfully ask Adobe to rethink this 'solution'. I'm in the 24
response time window with them now. This is just no longer much fun
for this project and its business critical. You know it well...
I was not doubting your first answer...I was grasping at
straws and now I need to be able to quote this group that they have
an error in their Technical documentation.
What Fun - not!!!

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