I'm having a really annoying problem at the moment... when I save files from MP3 files from anywhere - an error displays saying: "[filename].mp3 The above filename is invalid." In this example, the song title has been replaced with [filename] - anyway, I can't save the file unless I save it as something really short, like one word or two - which isn't suitable because a lot of songs are longer than 2 words! Anyway, I try to rename them then later - and I can't - I can only type a maximum of 20 characters!! It's so strange, any ideas guys? - Joe

I don't know if this is right because I haven't really looked in to it; however, are you using an older type of filesystem such as FAT32 under your XP installation? This might possibly be restricting your filename length. I use NTFS and the maximum filename length is quite high. I only ask because I remember the days when filenames were 8.3 Right click your HDD in My Computer and click properties. First screen you see says File System. If it is NTFS you might have 8.3 filenames enabled. Look at Fsutil: behavior in your Help and Support Centre.

File name length is same in NTFS and FAT32. 128 characters.

Are you certain its 128 characters maximum? I thought its 255 characters. i_XpUser

Well the fact of the matter is that both FAT32 and NTFS supports up to 255 characters for filename ...but what this means is that the characters begin counting from the drive letter then the folder name, subfolder name, subsubfolders name and finally the file itself. If you exceed the maximum length, the file will be truncated. Also, Windows will frown if you use any of the following characters \ / : * ? " ' < > | i_XpUser

Oh that's interesting XpUser, thanks for that - I think that might be the solution to the problem! This folder is a subfolder that follows quite a few other subfolders... It's path is something like: C:/Documents and Setting/Joe/MP3 Files/MP3 Collection 1/MP3 Collection 2/MP3 Collection 3/MP3 Collection 4/MP3 Collection 5/MP3 Collection 6/MP3 Collection 7/MP3 Collection 8/MP3 Filename.mp3 So that makes sense, what I'll do is move the folders out now seperately - and I think that should solve it! Thanks guys! - Joe