Program to spot oversize addresses prior to CD burn ?

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Windows PCs allow file names to go beyond 64 characters (the Joliet
limit), and also seem to allow address lengths longer than CD writing
permits, at least for Easy CD Creator 5 which I am forced to use in my
place
of work.

Desperately need to run a software over my data files on D drive to
check for
instances that will otherwise cause the CD writing prog to write the
disc then warn of some areas not reading due to infringement of
address length etc, or it infers that.
It would take forever to go counting up manually the address lengths
and
file names.

When you hit this warning, to go find the offending address in 700Mb
of files is prohibitive, I am desperate to find a program that pre
spots and highlights offending lines etc. I have just written a chunk of my D
drive to CD and yet again it says addresses infringe Joliet.
So I do lots of test burns adding folders few at a time until I find
the offending address, hours wasted.

Perhaps one can make a setting in win2K that stops users creating
addresses longer than 255characters or whatever the CD Joliet limit
is.

Just wish windows would yield warnings if file creation broke the CD
address
rule, stupid allowing things that CDs disallow ! About time CD camp
and OS camp talked to each other !

or...ARE THERE ANY FREEWARES OR SHAREWARES THAT WILL COUNT AND
HIGHLIGHT ADDRESSES ?

Steve
 
envirographics said:
Windows PCs allow file names to go beyond 64 characters (the Joliet
limit), and also seem to allow address lengths longer than CD writing
permits, at least for Easy CD Creator 5 which I am forced to use in my
place
of work.

Desperately need to run a software over my data files on D drive to
check for
instances that will otherwise cause the CD writing prog to write the
disc then warn of some areas not reading due to infringement of
address length etc, or it infers that.
It would take forever to go counting up manually the address lengths
and
file names.

When you hit this warning, to go find the offending address in 700Mb
of files is prohibitive, I am desperate to find a program that pre
spots and highlights offending lines etc. I have just written a chunk of my D
drive to CD and yet again it says addresses infringe Joliet.
So I do lots of test burns adding folders few at a time until I find
the offending address, hours wasted.

Perhaps one can make a setting in win2K that stops users creating
addresses longer than 255characters or whatever the CD Joliet limit
is.

Just wish windows would yield warnings if file creation broke the CD
address
rule, stupid allowing things that CDs disallow ! About time CD camp
and OS camp talked to each other !

or...ARE THERE ANY FREEWARES OR SHAREWARES THAT WILL COUNT AND
HIGHLIGHT ADDRESSES ?

Steve
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nero checks name lenghts and in case they're too long asks you whether to
continue.
hth, j.
 
envirographics said:
Just wish windows would yield warnings if file creation broke the CD
address
rule, stupid allowing things that CDs disallow ! About time CD camp
and OS camp talked to each other !
Click to expand...

Blame your burning program, not Windows. After all, windows existed before
burning CDs became common. Moreover burning app authors could revise their
programs to allow for longer file names...several do including
CDExtreme(free) and RecordBow which is basically the same program with a few
more non-essential features. Both allow various formats one of which allows
up to 212 characters in file names.

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I got around this problem by switching to BurnAtOnce. It can create
CDs with the Long Juliet format which supports much bigger file names.

I haven't had any drives that won't accept the CD.

But, I wish I still had a copy of an old burning program I used to use
that would tell me that a filename was too long and would offer to
truncate it and continue. Hopefully, someone will know of one that
does this.

Eric
 
same trouble wiht nero 5.(9?)


i winzip before burning. but then it's not easy to see files wihtin the
zip file. (i worked out the shell for win's compressed folders, but win
compresed is flukey, so never use it)

also, winzip will zip over-long names, but later cannot UNzip over-long
filenames. these over-longs are almost always faves/.URL files, so i just
give up. faves aren't worth much.
 
Windows PCs allow file names to go beyond 64 characters (the Joliet
limit), and also seem to allow address lengths longer than CD writing
permits, at least for Easy CD Creator 5 which I am forced to use in my
place of work.
Click to expand...

I have a similar problem with Nero Burning ROM. In most cases, Nero
will either automatically rename a long file or tell you it's too long
and then allow you to continue.

The real problem, which Nero will NOT continue past, is too many
levels of directories - the Joliet max is eight levels deep.

Unfortunately a lot of ebook authors apparently bury their stuff even
deeper than that (AND use ridiculously long filenames), which causes
me no end of aggravation.

The CD file system standard needs to be changed to bring it into the
real world.
 
Windows PCs allow file names to go beyond 64 characters (the Joliet
limit), and also seem to allow address lengths longer than CD writing
permits, at least for Easy CD Creator 5 which I am forced to use in my
place
of work.

Desperately need to run a software over my data files on D drive to
check for
instances that will otherwise cause the CD writing prog to write the
disc then warn of some areas not reading due to infringement of
address length etc, or it infers that.
It would take forever to go counting up manually the address lengths
and
file names.

When you hit this warning, to go find the offending address in 700Mb
of files is prohibitive, I am desperate to find a program that pre
spots and highlights offending lines etc. I have just written a chunk of my D
drive to CD and yet again it says addresses infringe Joliet.
So I do lots of test burns adding folders few at a time until I find
the offending address, hours wasted.

Perhaps one can make a setting in win2K that stops users creating
addresses longer than 255characters or whatever the CD Joliet limit
is.

Just wish windows would yield warnings if file creation broke the CD
address
rule, stupid allowing things that CDs disallow ! About time CD camp
and OS camp talked to each other !

or...ARE THERE ANY FREEWARES OR SHAREWARES THAT WILL COUNT AND
HIGHLIGHT ADDRESSES ?

Steve
Click to expand...

1-4a Renamer (freeware) has a feature which counts the number of
characters in a file name and displays those that go over 64, giving
the number by which they go over 64.

http://www.1-4a.com/rename/download.htm

I'm not sure that I understand what you mean about the address limit.
Are you using "address" to mean the file path? At any rate,
that's the only program I know of that is relevant.

C'ya.

Ben
 
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Windows PCs allow file names to go beyond 64 characters (the Joliet
limit), and also seem to allow address lengths longer than CD writing
permits, at least for Easy CD Creator 5 which I am forced to use in my
place
of work.

Desperately need to run a software over my data files on D drive to
check for
instances that will otherwise cause the CD writing prog to write the
disc then warn of some areas not reading due to infringement of
address length etc, or it infers that.
It would take forever to go counting up manually the address lengths
and
file names.

When you hit this warning, to go find the offending address in 700Mb
of files is prohibitive, I am desperate to find a program that pre
spots and highlights offending lines etc. I have just written a chunk
of my D drive to CD and yet again it says addresses infringe Joliet.
So I do lots of test burns adding folders few at a time until I find
the offending address, hours wasted.

Perhaps one can make a setting in win2K that stops users creating
addresses longer than 255characters or whatever the CD Joliet limit
is.

Just wish windows would yield warnings if file creation broke the CD
address
rule, stupid allowing things that CDs disallow ! About time CD camp
and OS camp talked to each other !

or...ARE THERE ANY FREEWARES OR SHAREWARES THAT WILL COUNT AND
HIGHLIGHT ADDRESSES ?

Steve
Click to expand...

Try using File List Generator
http://home.a03.itscom.net/tsuzu/programing/en/ls.zip
set to show path and filename.
This will give you a simple text list of complete path+filename,
which you can easily scan in a text editor such as EditPad
for lines that are longer than 255 characters (or whatever
the actual limit is).

For purposes of clarity (since your description is a bit murky,
and some people may think you are concerned about long filenames
as such), what you seek is a freeware equivalent to something
like ISOcheck, which is not free.

"ISOcheck checks all files in a path and its subdirs for ISO compliance.
If you create too many directory levels or the combination of path and
filename is too long then the CD might burn without errors but you may be
unable to read it in the end.
ISOcheck checks for these problems and warns you if it finds any
problems."
 
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