3.1.1.4 Configure Smart Filer

Max Name Length

This is maximum length of the portion of a file name before the extension. In DOS, or Windows 3.x, (or when the FAT file system is being used), this should be 8. With NTFS or HPFS, this number can be larger.

This is the maximum length for the extension portion of a filename. In DOS, or Windows 3.x, (or in Windows/NT when the FAT file system is being used), this should be 3.

Extension conversion allows extensions encountered during decoding which are not appropriate in Windows to be renamed. For example, you can specify that any time a ‘JPEG’ file is encountered, rename the extension to ‘JPG’. You can make strange mappings like mapping ‘ZIP’ to ‘FOO’ if you so desire. To add a new extension mapping, enter the Source Extension and the New Extension in thee appropriate fields, and click on Add. To remove an extension mapping, select the mapping in the list, and click on Delete.

This allows you to specify how WinVN will react if, during a decode, a duplicate file name is encountered. You have the following options:
Prompt for new file name

Replace extension with number (i.e. sound.wav becomes sound.001)

Presereve extension, prepend number to name (i.e. sound.wav becomes 1sound.wav)

Presereve extension, append number to name (i.e. sound.wav becomes sound1.wav)

This allows you to specify how WinVN will react if, during a decode, a file name or extension is encountered which is longer than the length limits you have specified. You have the following options:
Prompt for new file name

Truncate at max name length (i,e, avery-longname.wav becomes avery-lo.wav)

Condense (skip vowels, punctuation) (i,e, avery-longname.wav becomes vrylngnm.wav)

The order of file name handling is as follows: Extension Conversion occurs first, then Too-Long name, then Too-Long extension, then Duplicate Name.