Hi,
I copied some stuff from CD and downloaded some files with voyager to a 4Gig SFS partition.
In Dopus I cannot access some of the files.
On Workbench the access works, but why not with Opus ?
The filenames are not extraodinary, as they were easy to handle for the same Opus on an A4000 with OS3.1 ...

Can I fix this somehow ?

i don't know if this answers your question, but i have noticed that some files are long and magellian just doesn't see the whole name.

it's been a long time since i looked at the manual or read about this issue, but maybe there is a limit on file names in magellian.

Magellan is able to use long filenames.

Just go into
Setting --> Environment --> Directories --> Miscellaneous Settings
and set your preferred Maximum Filename Length.

The limit on the maximum value is set by AmigaDOS (106 characters) and/or by device filesystems (e.g. PFS3 allows 107 characters).

Magellan has a few residual bugs. One of these bugs sometimes makes a lister open and show truncated filenames. Magellan can't operate on those files because it tries to locate them with the truncated filenames... In such a case open another lister and go into the same directory: most times the names will be shown correctly. If not, open another lister, and so on. Otherwise reset and retry.

Code:yup!
that works

i must say, i wouldn't be without DOPus.

Hi,
thanks. The file lenght in Dopus was set to 30, now with 106 there's no prob anymore.
... I never knew, there was such an option in Opus, although I'm using it for years each day ....

bye

Very cool

What about regular Dopus 5? I have dopus 5.11 installed on my peg2..


I'm having the same problem with long filenames, in particular mp3s with tags..

tia
magnetic


[ Edited by magnetic on 2005/1/14 23:33 ]

This was a difficult question. The long filename management certainly was absent in all non-Magellan versions of Directory Opus (up to version 5.55). But I only remembered that the feature was relatively recent. So I searched my old DOpus manuals and supplements to find the answer.

This feature was not present in Directory Opus Magellan (versions 5.62, 5.65, 5.66). It was introduced only in the last Amiga distribution of the program: Directory Opus Magellan-II (versions 5.80, 5.81, and 5.82).

[ Well, this gives me an idea. After "Amiga versus PC" 12 years ago, and "From Genesi(s) To Revelation" last year, I could write "The Brief History Of The Amiga" when I will retire... ]