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Many readers replied to yesterday's item about long file names being truncated, especially with hexadecimal text substituted for the deleted portion of the name. Some of the replies overlap in the ...

"For example, Fetch will truncate long filenames when uploading to a non-Mac server that does handle long filenames. For example, I first noticed the problem when I tried to upload some Java class ...

File names on Linux systems can be as long as 255 characters. While determining which files in a directory have the longest names might not be the most exciting task at hand, doing this with a script ...

I have a bunch of DVDs, each filled with dozens of files. I want to create a list of the contents of these discs and put it into a spreadsheet. I want to list the file name, type and size. <BR> So far ...

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If you have to collect a number of files in the same folder, but want to title them in a more orderly fashion, you need to learn how to master renaming files in macOS. Sometimes, if you are putting ...

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The above script will print out the name of any file it finds matching the provided string. If I pass $ to it without escaping the dollar sign, all files in the directory are returned. Using backslash ...

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