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Re: Audacity mangles filenames on export (BUG?)
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:03 am
by billw58
coordinatezero wrote:We figured "aha, maybe they know something we don't". There's little to no information on this anywhere on the net. (Perhaps someone out there can formulate a better Google search.) Our current theory is that there's something in Carbon that freaks out on certain long filenames (but not all), but we can't pin it down.
You might try posting this to the Programming and Development section. I think more developers might hang out there. We're just the user support elves and are more focused on helping users with their problems and getting them working again.
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is an interesting issue, I think. Especially since Final Cut Pro (of all programs!) exhibits this behaviour too.
-- Bill
Re: Audacity mangles filenames on export (BUG?)
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:55 am
by steve
It's late now and I've only skim-read this topic (so apologies if this is irrelevant), but I remembered seeing something that may be relevant:
No Unicode or long file name support
Applies to: Audacity 1.2.x versions only
There are bugs in the Mac version of wxWidgets, called wxMac, that can affect Audacity. One bug involves Unicode support: because of this bug, Audacity stable 1.2.x versions cannot work with files or folders located inside a directory named with non-ASCII characters (usually international or accented characters). There is an additional artificial restriction of file name length, limiting your file names to 32 characters despite support in OS X for much longer names.
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs