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MacBinary and Long file names (2 posts)

• Started 14 years ago by Possum Stu
• Latest reply 14 years ago from Jim Matthews

• Possum Stu Member

  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 14 years ago #

• 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

  Posted 14 years ago #