Nero 5.5 keeps truncating file names...

...Despite my best efforts to the contrary.

When I am burning ISO backup CDs with Nero 5.5, I am often getting messages that file names have to be truncated to comply with the ISO format. Yet, When I select the ISO options, I select the most permissive parameters: See the included pics. Folders are usually no more than 3 or 4 deep, and there is no way I get to 255 characters in the path. Even that, I select to allow more than 255 characters but my filenames keep getting truncated.

There is nothing complicated to what I what to do:

E/Music/Genre/Artist/Album/00/Title

As soon as the path gets a bit longish because of the song full names...Truncated!

CD writer is LG 8120B

Is there anything I can change to correct this? Thanks.

That's pretty much normal. Even though you're saying to allow the long names, the second dialog is just pointing out that it's a bad idea and asking if you want to do that.

If this stuff is for archiving, just zip up a CD worth of stuff and burn the zip file to the CD. All the length issues just go away. If you need to be able to pick individual tracks off the CD, look at shortening the names.

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Originally Posted by Tuttle

Even though you're saying to allow the long names, the second dialog is just pointing out that it's a bad idea and asking if you want to do that.

If this stuff is for archiving, just zip up a CD worth of stuff and burn the zip file to the CD. All the length issues just go away. If you need to be able to pick individual tracks off the CD, look at shortening the names.

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Thanks

So I understand that even if I say that I want to allow more than 255 characters, Nero refuses to do it even if it has an option to precisely allow this...Weird

As for zipping yes, it is a nice workaround but it takes a bit of time. I was hoping for a way to keep the long file names without going through this additionnal step.

If you okay to the second prompt, Nero will actually put the long names on the CD. The issue here is that you're going outside the standard at that point, so you can't guarantee how anything else will treat the CD. I suspect (and I'm not sure, because I just do the zip thing) that if you poked around one of those discs with IsoBuster then you'll be able to find both the full and truncated names there, or at least the full ones.

I installed IsoBuster and I am not able to see anything else than truncated file names, even through this tool.

However, your reference to IsoBuster is very valuable to me. I poked around with it and it sure can do a lot of things concerning file recovery and image file management, even the free version which is only limited in regard to UDF (not something I need)

For example, it managed to extract a video I have burned on a low-quality CD that I previously could not read past the halfway point.

As for my little problem with long file names, I will create a special folder for my files which have a long filename, then zip them. They should easily fit on a single CD.

Thanks a lot, Tuttle, for your replies and the link to IsoBuster