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.Mac Filename Length Issue
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Cop Rock
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Aug 14, 2003, 11:52 AM
 
I ran into a fairly irritating filename length limitation with .mac yesterday.

I was uploading some pictures to my Sites directory and attempting to view them in Safari. Most of the pictures worked except for one that had a longer name than the others. I could access the file from my iDisk but Safari could not see it. I shortened the name of the file and suddenly it was accessible.

It appears that .mac has a 31 character filename limitation for web served files. Maybe they're using OS 9 servers?

I created a test page to show the problem using images with name lengths from 24-40:

http://homepage.mac.com/awalker/lengthtest/

All of the images on that page should display properly but I don't see anything past "1234567890123456789A1234567.gif".
     
   
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