Previous Post: Mac OS X’s Finder: Dumb Trash alert You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 at 10:17 am and is filed under Macintosh. But not Apple’s own QuickTime Pro, which obviously is still using program code from the pre-Mac OS X days.Īnd they expect us to gleefully pay $29.99 for this…
#IS QUICKTIME STILL SUPPORTED FOR MAC MAC OS X#
Pretty much every Mac OS X application being sold today supports long file names. Mac OS X has had built-in support for long file names since 2001. mp3” file extension, which identifies the file as an MP3 file! Worse still, the truncation has actually removed the all-important “. It’s a truncated version of the original name of the file (which is listed above the embedded QuickTime Player on the web page). Look at the file name suggested in the “ Save As:” field at the top. A “ Save Source File As…” dialog box appears. This will pull down a contextual menu with various commands, including, if you have QuickTime Pro, the “ Save As Source…” command, which lets you save the embedded MP3 file as a stand-alone MP3 file anywhere on your hard drive.Ĭhoose the “ Save As Source…” command. Now go to the button with the down-pointing triangle, in the bottom-right corner, and click on it. Wait until the MP3 file is fully loaded in the embedded QuickTime Player. Visit a web page with an embedded MP3 file whose file name happens to be longer than 31 characters, such as this one. support for long file names, something that was introduced at the OS level in Mac OS X about six years ago. I don’t know what Apple’s definition of a decent product is, but apparently it doesn’t include support for file names longer than 31 characters-i.e. When you’ve given Apple the $29.99US it wants for the privilege of being able to use QuickTime’s so-called “Pro” features, such as the ability to watch movies full-screen or to save embedded content off a web page, you expect a decent product for your money.
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