ITunes Windows 7 & File Names

Apple has a bug that's really annoying between the Mac and PC versions of iTunes. If you create a long folder and filename such as "The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers Part 1" on the Mac and then copy and import that on a Windows 7 machine authorized and running iTunes it truncates the filename for both the folder and video file. Not fun, and I hope this gets fixed soon!

Although iTunes is limited to 256 characters because of the way it stores file names and accesses the files, in principle Windows would allow longer paths. iTunes generated file & folder names are always limited to 40 characters (inc. any extension) for each folder and filename in the path so these are often truncated even though the practical limit of 256 characters would not be reached. I disable the *Keep iTunes Media folder organised* option and use a script to rename my files with longer titles and other personal preferences.
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ballistic_realm wrote:
Let say we have a list of string which are :
1.txt
a.txt
2.txt
11.txt
a(1).txt
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a(2).txt
If i convert those strings as file names, and sort it by file name in the windows explorer the result is
1.txt
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11.txt
a(1).txt
a(2).txt
a(11).txt
a.txt
...Not sure, but wouldn't Windows sort it like:
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2.txt
11.txt
a.txt
a(1).txt
a(2).txt
a(11).txt
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tokens.add(m.group());
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int lastDot = s.lastIndexOf('.');
return lastDot < 0 ? s : s.substring(0, lastDot);

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> of course the path DOES in fact exist. in addition I can
create a file
> with
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when I do so the file
> name
> is displayed on the Mac side thus:
>
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