Confirm Long File Name Bug in Player Object

Brian Yennie briany at qldlearning.com
Fri Jun 24 20:58:32 EDT 2005


I know this is a pretty dirty sounding workaround, but what happens if 
you place an alias to the file in the user's temporary files (instead 
of copying it there)? More work but less disk space if it works...

>> If you want to deliver a media player now, the only way around this 
>> is to
>> have your app duplicate the user's media somewhere on their drive, 
>> rename
>> it, and then make sure to delete the duplicate when you're done.  For 
>> a few
>> files, one by one, this might be OK, but I question whether this is a 
>> valid
>> workaround for potentially dozens of multi-megabyte files.



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