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MacBinary and Long file names (2 posts)
- Started 13 years ago by Possum Stu
- Latest reply 13 years ago from Jim Matthews
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Possum Stu Member
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Jim Matthews Administrator
The MacBinary format only supports file names up to 31 characters, so if the name is longer than that Fetch does not use MacBinary. Since it is a limitation of the format, I don't know of a way to avoid this issue.
Jim Matthews
Fetch Softworks
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We are running CrushFTP to serve Macintosh files on our OSX server. MacBinary is enabled. As a test, I used Fetch to upload an Illustrator EPS with a preview icon. Its name is "test_file.eps" and its file size is 19,362,817 bytes. The file that arrived on the server matched the original perfectly.
Now I change the file name to "test_file_with_very_long_name_that_extends_very_far_0001.eps". The file that arrives on the server loses its thumbnail and is now 19,200,806 bytes. The same behavior occurs on downloads. From this I conclude that the MacBinary encoding either failed or was not attempted.
Is this a bug that can be fixed in some future patch to Fetch? Or is the 31-character limit for MacBinary transfers something we cannot avoid?
Thanks for you attention.
Posted 13 years ago #