bilo77
February 28th, 2005, 12:39 AM
Over the years I've had the nasty habbit of naming documents and photos with descriptions that exceed Joliet's 32 character limit. It drives me nuts, even though I try to keep the names limited, Windows lets me exceed the limits over and over without any warning.. that is, until someone lets scandisk botch the file names automatically or it comes time to burn my files to CD..by that time I have hundreds and hundreds of files.
I am still learning my lesson from these mistakes made long ago..
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to get longer file names onto CD, or at least a way to have windows alert you when you name something over 32 characters.. I simply have far too much data to go in and rename manually, I don't want to give it up, and I'm sick of having it stranded on a hard disk with now somewhat corrupt installs of older Windows systems I'd like to say good riddance to. As a result I have stashes of info scattered on different hard drives..it's just a big mess.
*most of the files in question are stuck on 98x hard drives, but I am doing my burning on an XP Pro machine these days. I have Nero 5.5 but if there's something better I'm willing to try it.
Thanks if advance if anyone has advice.
I am still learning my lesson from these mistakes made long ago..
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to get longer file names onto CD, or at least a way to have windows alert you when you name something over 32 characters.. I simply have far too much data to go in and rename manually, I don't want to give it up, and I'm sick of having it stranded on a hard disk with now somewhat corrupt installs of older Windows systems I'd like to say good riddance to. As a result I have stashes of info scattered on different hard drives..it's just a big mess.
*most of the files in question are stuck on 98x hard drives, but I am doing my burning on an XP Pro machine these days. I have Nero 5.5 but if there's something better I'm willing to try it.
Thanks if advance if anyone has advice.