AFP filenames on MyBook are cut off

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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Hello,

when viewing directories with files which have names longer than about 30 characters over AFP (afpd) (Apple File Protocol), filenames are cut off after about 30 characters and a random(?) number is appended. So 

  My Document with a very long name to make an example.txt

becomes something like 

  My Document with a very long na#195.txt

I have not found anything in the netatalk documentation about filename lengths, but one user had a similar problem:  http://serverfault.com/questions/170269/netatalk-sharing-filename-limitation

According to  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems, it is possible that OS X tries to connect to the Appleshare volumes as “HFS” instead of “HFSplus” - since HFS did have a 31 character limit (HFSplus does not).

Please fix. As a workaround, I will use SMB shares for the time being.

Regards

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Dude, I think you’ll have better luck if you try to contact WD. It’s the first time in my time on the boards I see someone posting this, so either your MBL has a problem or your configuration is forcing a problem… If more people can reproduce it then it’s a bug to be fixed.

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Just tried this myself (on OS X 10.6.8). I can create file names in Finder longer than 40 characters. Are you sure this is not because you are using a Finder replacement program (as you noted in another thread)?

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Hello,

cannot reproduce this any more after upgrading to the 02.02.02 firmware.

(Neither with original Finder nor with Path Finder.)

Sorry!