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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004713 | MMW v4 | Conversion/Leveling | public | 2008-05-21 23:12 | 2008-11-23 20:31 |
| Reporter | Ludek | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 3.0 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 3.1 | ||||
| Summary | 0004713: File conversion fails for filepaths > 255 chars long with error message (auto-cutoff feature?) | ||||
| Description | File conversion fails for files exceeding 255 chars output filepath limit with error message "The file ....... was not successfully created ". This was raised in this ticket http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=644 Per discussion over IM possible solutions are: 1. Implement auto-cutoff feature as we have implemented for podcasts 2. Allow to create file with filepath length > 255 chars 3. Improve the error message in order to be more user-friendly (allowing user interaction, e.g. mask change) Probably 3. is preferable as post 3.0 fix. | ||||
| Additional Information | There seems to be another related ticket: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=776¬econfirm=1 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 1195 | ||||
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Assigning to Rusty for a review. The reasons why 3. seems to be the best are: 1. It isn't clear how to implement this, i.e. where to automatically shorten the path. 2. Even though this is possible, it's a little tricky and many Windows apps (including Explorer afaik) can't work with such paths. 3. Some error message could be directly a part of Auto-Organize dialog. |
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OK. We can take the third approach. This means that a warning similar to that which appears for duplicates ("Duplicate filenames exist in red. Please change the filenames.") should appear on the Conversion/Auto-organize/Rip dialog: Highlighted files exceed 255 characters. Please change the Destination or Filename. |
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Since we would need space for showing both messages in case they are needed, what about joining them to one, i.e.: Duplicate or too long filenames exist (in red). Please change the filenames. |
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Suggested text: Duplicates and overly long filenames are highlighted. Please edit them. (note: I use the 'highlighted' terminology because we may change the color). |
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Added in build 1195. + fixed regression: the alert text has not been in red + added for auto-organize too (there was same issue) |
