Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Maximum file path on Mac ... is it still 64 characters?

nerd opened this issue on Jul 05, 2007 · 2 posts


nerd posted Thu, 05 July 2007 at 5:24 AM Forum Moderator

Way back in the Poser 4 days on Mac there was a limit of 64 characters for the texture and Obj paths. I'm pretty sure this has been addressed in subsequent version. Could somebody confirm this for me.


kuroyume0161 posted Thu, 05 July 2007 at 10:11 AM

I certainly hope so! ;)

Anyway, even the old routines that I use to convert paths for resources (FSRef in (Classic MacOS) allow 254 characters for the full path.  MacOS X allows 255 character UTF8 encoded filenames.  That's each file/folder name in the path.  I am certain that Poser 5 and later support this as they do not run solely in 'Classic' mode but in OS X directly.

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