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AppleWorks filename weirdness
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How come whatever I name a document in AppleWorks (6) the filename of the open document is gibberish like this:
This isn't a functional problem but it's just bothering me.
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Are these long filenames with more than 32 characters?
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To clarify - AppleWorks can't handle filenames (including the three letter extension) of more than 31 characters due to it being a poor port of a MacOS 9 application. When it opens a file with a longer name it will display it similarly to what you show in your screenshot. I don't recall if it is able to save it back to the correct length name or not... the solution is to only use a maximum of 31 characters for your filenames in AppleWorks. FWIW MS Office.vX also suffered from this stupid limitation.
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Originally Posted by JKT
To clarify - AppleWorks can't handle filenames (including the three letter extension) of more than 31 characters due to it being a poor port of a MacOS 9 application. When it opens a file with a longer name it will display it similarly to what you show in your screenshot. I don't recall if it is able to save it back to the correct length name or not... the solution is to only use a maximum of 31 characters for your filenames in AppleWorks. FWIW MS Office.vX also suffered from this stupid limitation.
32 characters? Is that including spaces?
EDIT: You're right. Problem solved.
I'll keep my second AppleWorks question in this thread:
How come my default font is Baskerville, the entire document (and all my documents) are in that font, but whenever I copy/paste Baskerville text it pastes as Times New Roman? This is annoying because every time I cut/paste I have change the font settings.
(Last edited by Ulrich Kinbote; Aug 21, 2006 at 08:30 PM.
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Originally Posted by Ulrich Kinbote
32 characters? Is that including spaces?
EDIT: You're right. Problem solved.
I'll keep my second AppleWorks question in this thread:
How come my default font is Baskerville, the entire document (and all my documents) are in that font, but whenever I copy/paste Baskerville text it pastes as Times New Roman? This is annoying because every time I cut/paste I have change the font settings.
This is an old problem I used to get in AppleWorks as well. In the end I got so fed up with it that I moved everything over to Pages. I read various forums about this. It seems a well known problem which I never sorted out fully. There will never be a fix for this from Apple as it is no longer developed.
Pages reads AW WP files well and is easily worth the money, especially if you need a presentation app. Did you ever try that abomination which was the presentation module in AW?
Pages also manages to save files with names longer than 32 characters as well!
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