slash in file name on OS X

[Josh Mellicker]

Thanks Jim!

Renaming would break links in video editing software to the video  
files, but I could temporarily rename the files until I am done with  
them, then rename them back.

The only hassle is that they'll have to quit their editing program.

I am going to try to eliminate the path by changing the defaultFolder  
next...

On Sep 5, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Jim Ault wrote:

> Not too difficult to convert the filename slashes to another char.
>
> --do this for each folder that contains poorly named files
> set the defaultFolder to pathToFolder
> put the files into fileList
> filter fileList with "*/*"
> set the itemdel to "/"
>
> repeat for each line LNN in fileList
>      put LNN into userFileName
>     replace "/" with "|" in userFileName
>     rename ( LNN) to (userFileName)
> end repeat
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
> On 9/5/07 5:51 PM, "Josh Mellicker" <josh at dvcreators.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Phil, I figured as much.
>>
>> These will be already-captured video files, in which some people put
>> the date... grrrrr!
>>
>>
>> On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
>>
>>> Josh Mellicker wrote:
>>>> If there is a slash in the file name on OS X, Revolution replaces
>>>> it with a colon ":"
>>>> Unfortunately, this means the file cannot be found.
>>>> Of course, replacing colons with slashes doesn't help, since Rev
>>>> interprets this as an extra folder.
>>>> Has anyone solved this problem?
>>>
>>> Hi Josh,
>>>
>>> My solution: disallow slashes in filenames.
>>>
>>> Rev lets you detect slashes in filenames (by listing the files in a
>>> folder for example) but doesn't let you [successfully] reference
>>> files whose names contain them.
>>>
>>> Slashes aren't allowed in filenames on Windows IIRC, so if you're
>>> making a multi-platform thing you'll need to deal with it there
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> I don't know a workaround.
>>>
>>> Phil Davis
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