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    From Lupine Furmen@1:103/705 to All on Sun Oct 6 10:04:58 2019
    Ok, in the midst of setting up my file bases, and in doing the mass upload I'm noticing that Synchro is refusing to accept files with a single character extension, or files without an extension.
    Correction. I now see what's happening. It's not reading the long file names. It's trying to enforce an 8.3 file naming, so it's reading the first 8 character in the file name and treating the next 3 letters as the extension which is messing things up and it refuses to upload the file into the base. example, it's reading "A New Life - TheEggman.lit" as "A New Li.fe"

    Also, Is there a way to have it do a mass upload without any interaction from my end?

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Lupine Furmen on Sun Oct 6 12:43:21 2019
    Re: Mass Uploads
    By: Lupine Furmen to All on Sun Oct 06 2019 10:04 am

    Ok, in the midst of setting up my file bases, and in doing the mass upload I'm noticing that Synchro is refusing to accept files with a single character extension, or files without an extension.
    Correction. I now see what's happening. It's not reading the long file names. It's trying to enforce an 8.3 file naming, so it's reading the first 8 character in the file name and treating the next 3 letters as the extension which is messing things up and it refuses to upload the file into the base. example, it's reading "A New Life - TheEggman.lit" as "A New Li.fe"

    This is on Windows? Adding long filenames on Windows *should* work.

    Do you also have this problem when there are no spaces in the filename? Spaces are problematic.

    Also, Is there a way to have it do a mass upload without any interaction from my end?

    Yes:
    http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:files#adding_files

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