Obnoxious file and path names (help!)

How can I construct a regular site, that doesn't involve having my file names being danscool_website.html and having the url name in each file. I hate it.

It would be better to tell people what it is you do want, perhaps with an example.
If you want your file names to be different than the page and site names you yourself set in the Inspector, then you would need to edit the html by hand each time after publishing. If this is really important to you, it may be best to use another web creation app which gives you that option.
I'm not sure what you mean by "having the url name in each file". I've seen some people inflict ugly path names on themselves by naming their site inside the iWeb app the same as their personal domain name. The fix for that is to name the site something short and simple like "1" instead.
If you can provide your url or be more specific, more ideas may be fortcoming.

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I want to *use* very long file and path names!

This is really a plea to Microsoft...
There are several threads about copying or deleting files where the path and/or file name is too long.
Most have explanations of why this problem occurs. (depending on Windows version and application, the total length [fully qualified file name; i.e. C:\this-dir\that-dir\somefile.xyz] is limited to a maximum of 260 or fewer characters). This limit
But I *WANT* to be able to use very long file names and paths!
I can understand Microsoft keeping this limit - even while allowing UNICODE paths and file names up to 32k characters - because many existing tools will be unable to handle the longer names. This would probably yield a lot of questions/flames about
them "breaking the software I've used for years."
But it would be possible to have a system setting to optionally allow the long names. Since I'd have to manually set it, I'd know I'm potentially breaking existing software.
In my case, I'm backing up various file directories where some files are very long. With the server-side additional paths (e.g., client-name\project-name\backup-date\...") I occasionally hit files that can't be copied. Renaming is not suitable;
sometimes names have to match other file names.
I can zip them, create iso files, use a backup program that creates a blob, put them in a source-control system, etc - but I really don't *want* to do that; it's very convenient to have a direct copy of the directories. Each of these 'solutions' either
requires extra work (which could be scripted, so ok...) or doesn't work with the work-flow for some reason.
Microsoft, *please* fix this in Windows 8! (if not before...) This limit has existed for far too long!
And readers - please don't just repeat what's in the other threads (rename/use subst/map directory/etc) or flame without useful information. Thanks!

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Long file and path names

I have a dialog window where users can choose a file, the name and path of which is then displayed. The field where this is displayed isn't big enough to hold the typical long path names found on for example Windows. I was wondering if there is a standardized way of shortening/abbreviating the full path name already written up somewhere? I want my program to be portable ... I looked at how MS Word does it on Windows, and I could write a specialized function to copy that, but then it wouldn't work on other systems that use different path conventions, and I would like to keep the generality if possible. On word they do something like this
C:/.../final directory/filename

Kramis wrote:
sure, that much I understand, but I wouldn't know how to create that sort of string from an arbitrary path name of unknown format. In Windows, for example, I could take the first three characters and then ..., but that might not work globally. The questions is about parsing and converting a path name from an arbitrary system.I'd just split the path into its 'final directory name' and 'file name' (with the universal Java path seperator of (/)), and stick '...' in front of it.
So any path such as C:/blah/blah/blah/endpath/filename or /unix/path/blah/blah/endpath/filename would become .../endpath/filename regardless of platform.

Unicode file and path names...

How does SleepyCat handle Unicode file names and directory paths?
Are there any coding examples?
Thanks

We have support for Unicode using UTF-8 encodings.
What platform(s) do your applications need to run on? Would Windows support for UTF-8 be sufficient?
Related information:
DB_ENV->open: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/api_c/env_open.html
DB->open: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/api_c/db_open.html
"When using a Unicode build on Windows (the default), the db_home argument will be interpreted as a UTF-8 string, which is equivalent to ASCII for Latin characters."
"When using a Unicode build on Windows (the default), the file argument will be interpreted as a UTF-8 string, which is equivalent to ASCII for Latin characters."
Bogdan Coman

Automatic name changes and file and path name limitation when storing files

Dear all I am using Airport Extrem with an attached disc and experience following:
1) Names get changed. Second part of file name gets replaced with some hex numbering
2) Get the error message from time to time that file can't be stored on the Airport Extrem attached disc and that the file name is too long.
Any idea.

I've got the same problem with seagate 750 GB drive - Mac OS Extended (Journaled) - over fast ethernet (first gen) AEBS(n)
P.S.- sometimes the folder names get corrected automaticaly, and sometimes folders get duplicated (with different corrupted hex-like name endings) and if I delete one of them, they all vanishes.
Message was edited by: gar_krol

File and directory names with Danish characters

I have installed the Novell Client v2.0 for Linux on my Open Suse 10.3. The Client is connecting to my Netware servers (6.0 & 6.5) without any problems...
There is one problem... Filenames and directory names with the Danish , & (ae, oe & aa), e.g the filename bger.doc (bger = books) is shown as b. and when clicking the file the file disappears from the file list. It seems to be the same problem with the German (umlaub).
What to do?
/Michael

Originally Posted by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
mimo <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is one problem... Filenames and directory names with the Danish ,
> & (ae, oe & aa), e.g the filename bger.doc (bger = books) is shown as
> b. and when clicking the file the file disappears from the file list. It
> seems to be the same problem with the German (umlaub). What to do?
As far as I know, the Novell Client for Linux expects that file and
directory names use the UTF-8 encoding and does not support a traditional
8-bit encoding like ISO 8859-1. Try changing the encoding of file and
directory names to UTF-8 as described in
SDB:Converting Files or File Names to UTF-8 Encoding - openSUSE
HTH,
Ray Dassen
Technical Support Engineer, EMEA Services Center, Novell Technical Services
Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise Software for the Open Enterprise
Seems a good hint. When I create a folder or file from within SUSE using an "Umlaut" everything is OK and NCL 2.0 displays them correctly as they are UTF-8 formatted.
The proposed tool is no solution: one cannot convert folders or files that one cannot see (does it work for folders at all?). Maybe a windows tool would work because one could search for all files or folders with "Umlaute" and convert them. Other options?

Prevent using special characters in file and folder names?

I've recently begun adding windows clients to my network. In doing so, I've found that on my file shares from OS X server, the windows clients are unable to see files and folders which have names containing special characters such as / ? < > \ : * | ”
Unfortunately my accounting department has been creating files with these characters in their names for several years. I would like to find if there is a way to prevent them from using a defined set of characters in the file and folder names to prevent them from "accidentally" doing so in the future.
I've found that by turning off streams support on SMB in OS X server, that my windows clients can at least see that a file or folder should exist, albeit with a corrupted file name. Removing the special characters from these names allows the proper name to become visible and the file accessible.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.

(_seb_) wrote:
> Gary White wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:15:04 +0100, "(_seb_)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu"
>>>
>>> How can I encode this so it's valid as a
directory name, yet can be
>>> displayed as intended when the name is output to
the page.
>>> urlencode() does not do the job, neither does
htmlentities()...
>>
>>
>> What's wrong with:
>>
>> $l="ça alors: it's a déjà-vu";
>> print urlencode($l)."<br>\n";
>> print htmlspecialchars($l);
>>
>> Gary
>
>
> I know that, but what is the name of the directory? It
has to be a real
> directory name, not a string stored somewhere.
>
> What's a valid encoding for a directory named "ça
alors: it's a
> déjà-vu"? I can call a folder like this on my
Mac, but it won't work on
> any server...
>
>
>
PS: basically it's not a url encoding issue.
I can url encode "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu",
and pass it in a url query string. But my issue is not
with an url query string, it's with an actual URL, that is,
the actual name of the directory. It
can't be "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu". But I
want to allow the user to name their directory like that
if they want. So I need a way to encode this into characters
that can be used for an actual
directory on the server.
seb ( [email protected])
http://webtrans1.com | high-end web
design
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How do I turn a list of files and paths into this format using AS?

Hi everyone,
I'm a complete novice with Applescript and I need some help to script turning a list of files from the Finder into a specific format in a text doc, so I can save as CSV and import into another app (Anki, for learning language).
Here's an example list of files:
I can get Automator to spit out the files names and paths into a text file, but I think I need Applescript to turn the result into this:
<img src="12-1.jpg">;[sound:12-1.caf];;
<img src="12-2.jpg">;[sound:12-2.caf];;
<img src="12-3.jpg">;[sound:12-3.caf];;
<img src="12-4.jpg">;[sound:12-4.caf];;
Any help would be appreciated.

This processes the JPG files, and then assumes that the CAF files are in the flle structure you provided.
Select files in the Image Folder:
The Run Shell Script [pass input as arguments] is:
for f in "$@"
do
     caf="$f"
     caf=${caf/Images/Audio}
     caf=${caf%.*}.caf
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PDF Download in Preview and Path Names

The menu in Preview changed with the new upgrade to Lion. When I download a PDF document and go to 'save as' in whatever folder I want, the option to save as is not listed.
Also, I have now go to folder and enter the path name whereas before I never had to enter a path name to find a folder. What am I doing wrong? Maybe I don't understand the new changes and upgrade?
Please help.
Moms90

Thanks leroydouglas! This worked for me. Sometimes I feel so 'stupid', but am new to Mac. . .
Moms90

Java loading text file and doing stuff help

Hello,
Can anyone help me with this, I just don't know where to start..
I need to create a java program which will load up a text file. The text file must be no bigger than 1000 characters (so somewhere there needs to be an exception I am guessing)
Once loaded, it needs to run some methods on the text file which each return a single statistical count, the methods need to count things like number of white space, number of vowels, frequency of each vowel (this would not need to return a single count but maybe update some sort of array?) , number of printable characters and number of consonants.
Any help would be very good.
Dean

Thanks for the help so far
But first things first, I should start at the
beginning.
I am thinking maybe start with something like from
the Sun tutorial for 'CopyCharacters.java'.
So we have the first part of the program that loads
up the txt file....
(I really would like to have GUI for this, but I
can worry about that once the actual program is
working
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
public class CopyCharacters {
public static void main(String[] args) throws
IOException {
FileReader inputStream = null;
FileWriter outputStream = null;
try {
inputStream = new
FileReader("input_characters.txt");
Right, now its time to actually read what is in the
file and use some of the statements you have
suggested, can anyone help me get started with this?
Dean
public class DeanHomeworkAssignment {
public static void main(String args[]) {
//Put your code here
}There ya go, that should get you started.
Start by writing the code to open the file.
This isn't that difficult.

Why are my file and folder names changing randomly? (Appending Dates)

Recently Finder has taken to randomly (it seems) appending the date to various folder and file names. For example today I dragged a file from Destop into Documents folder and the file name changed immediately after the move:
From: wedding-invite.pdf
To: wedding-invite 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013 12/11/2013.pdf
This has happed to folder names as well with different amounts of replication and different dates (usually today's date or document creation date). It happens to some files and folders but not to others. Those that it does happen to have no UNDO trail for the particular action (like Undo Move for example).
Very frustrating - any assistance would be appreciated.
I am running nothiong special (I do run Google Drive on my iMac). Also Time Machine.

Thanks! I found this on the folder actions setup:

HT1349 I have a sony Vaio (VGN-NS190J). Recently, my I tunes library does not stay in I tunes upon shutting my computer down. When I start the computer up and open I tunes, I have to have I tunes find all my music files and repopulate? help please

Can somebody help......regarding the above question..... I have had I tunes on this computer for several years without a problem. I do use webroot as an antivirus software. I have Windows Vista operating system and I am using the latest version of Itunes available. When ever I open Itunes, my music, books, ect, ect. files are always gone and I have to ask Itunes to find them on my computer almost every time I open Itunes. This problem has been going on now for about the last 6 months. Nothing else wrong with computer. Another issue associated: I can create a playlist one night, and the next day I open Tune, it's gone. I would really appreciate any help. Thank you.

It can be that the library path, or files, are corrupted. What happens if you set a different path to save the library?

Dynamic File and Directory Name without Mapping

Hello Experts,
We have following requirement:
1) Files will be picked from R/3 AL11 directory and would be placed in corresponding folder in target system.
2) On source side ,there would be only one folder for all types of files(around 20),but on target side,there would be one folder for each kind of file(20 folders)
3) File name should be same on the target side but target directory should be selected based on file name.
I have gone through a number of posts related to similar requirements and hence,sorry for a new post but I am not yet able to find a solution to this.
I could understand,this can be achieved using DynamicConfiguration UDF .
But I have no possibility to have mapping in my scenario.It would just be a pass through scenario.
Can anyone please suggest a solution to this?
Thanks.
Regards,
Shweta

Hello,
Thanks a lot for suggesting solution to this problem.
I could achieve this using following Java mapping:
import com.sap.aii.mapping.api.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class GetDynamicConfiguration implements StreamTransformation {
    private Map param;
    public void setParameter(Map map1) {
        this.param = map1;
    public void execute(InputStream inputstream, OutputStream outputstream) throws StreamTransformationException {
        try {
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               trace = (AbstractTrace)param.get(StreamTransformationConstants.MAPPING_TRACE );
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            DynamicConfiguration conf = (DynamicConfiguration) param.get(StreamTransformationConstants.DYNAMIC_CONFIGURATION);
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               DynamicConfigurationKey key1 = DynamicConfigurationKey.create("http://sap.com/xi/XI/System/File", "Directory");
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               trace.addInfo("File name is "+filename);
            if(filename.equals("in.txt"))
            directory = "/home/ftpxi/in";
               if(filename.equals("test.txt"))
               directory = "/home/ftpxi/in/test";
               if(filename.equals("shweta27.txt"))
               directory = "/home/ftpxi/in/test";
               trace.addInfo("Directory name is "+directory);
               conf.put(key1, directory);
            // b) Just copy input file to output file
            byte[] b = new byte[inputstream.available()];
            inputstream.read(b);
            outputstream.write(b);
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            exception.printStackTrace();
Thanks again.
Regards,
Shweta

Bring back colored file and folder names

The dots have got to go!!! Make them an option if you need to, but GIVE US BACK THE HIGHLIGHTING OF FILE NAMES, FOLDER NAMES, AND FOLDERS!!!!!!!!
WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO LISTEN TO YOUR CUSTOMERS --- THIS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA

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Listing Files Without Path Name?

Well this is about the only way I could figure out how to get the file names contained with in this path.
     public String[] getFileName(File path){
         File files[];
         files = path.listFiles();
         Arrays.sort(files);
         String data[] = new String[files.length];
         for (int i = 0, n = files.length; i < n; i++) {
          data[i] = files.toString();
          return data;

public String[] getFileName(File path){
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         files = path.listFiles();
         Arrays.sort(files);
         String data[] = new String[files.length];
         for (int i = 0, n = files.length; i < n; i++) {
          data[i] = files.getName(); // instead of toString()
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Edited by: Metko on Mar 31, 2008 6:48 AM

Obnoxious file and path names (help!)

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