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MAC wierdness (part1)

March 3rd, 2006

The problem that we experienced is really weird… We basically had a swf loading a video in itself, the file name was pulled off a xml file which was loaded in. That swf worked fine on pc but as soon as we tried to run it on a mac it stoped working. We first thought that we were using the wrong flash player (8 -> 7) but no it was that all…
One of collegues who works on mac told us the mac has issues now and then with long filenames. At first i was really septical so we run some tests with long and short filenames. It turned out that he was right. The maximum characters for a file name on a mac is 23 characters. If it’s any longuer things start breaking… very strange…

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