AUGHHH!!! Filenames munged

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The Protools Forum is down and I'm about to throw my computer out the window so I'm posting here. And let me say for the record that I hate ProTools and if I could get this stuff into CuBase I would be a happy camper.

Anyways, I have an entire album, including different people's mixes, on a 160GB hard drive. It was recorded in ProTools TDM and copied over to my drive. I had my friend with a Mac do a Save Copy As on all of the sessions with Enforce PC Compatibility turned on, and it worked great on my Windows machine! At first...

Today I went to listen to some stuff and ProTools couldn't find the fades or the audio files. They're all there, but the long names are all cut off with a ~ and a number in their place. The folder names are munged, too. I am able to manually Search for each file through the dialog by setting the radio button to "Unique ID", and then assign it but it will take decades to go through all these files, there's probably a thousand fades and audio files, maybe more. To make it even more aggravating it inter-sperses the fades and audio files so you have to navigate to a different folder depending on which pops up in the order.

I suspect this might have happened because another friend tried to open the sessions at a different studio, one that has an older ProTools setup, I think.

A) Did plugging the drive into an old version of Mac O/S or ProTools do this to my filenames?

B) Is there some utility that will fix this, or a setting in ProTools to key the files by their "Unique ID" instead of the filename?

As Charlie Brown might say: AUGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
 
A: Possibly, if the OS or Protools didn't support long filenames...
B: Wouldnt have a clue....
 
mabye it was messed up before you got it. Check all other places you might have the file saved for the names. See if you can tell wehre it got messed.
 
It was working on my machine at home, then I took it over there and tried to open the files, then I brought it home and the filenames were screwey on the same sessions I'd worked on at home before. We didn't successfully open anything in the studio, just plugged it in and browsed around a little, tried to open one session. But the whole drive is munged, all the folders. It truncated all the longer filenames and replaced with ~01, ~02 etc. to deal with duplicates. Maybe it's something else that caused it but that is the only "event" I can think of. I thought this problem went away when DOS did. WTF?
 
I wouldn't blame it on protools. I'd bet your friend has an older version of windows also.
 
His was a Mac system. It is a Fat32 drive that can be read by both Mac and PC. Maybe it was the O/S version? Or maybe my drive is croaking?
 
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