From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: November 13, 2005 12:55:46 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] File Error

Hi David;

You haven't really done anything wrong, it's a limitation buy Apple.

The -37 error means the source movie file name is too long, which results in the generated file name being too long to create an fsspec with from QuickTime.

So if you shorten the source movies name (less than 29 characters) then it can create the resulting stacked file from it.

This has been addressed in the next Alpha as I re-wrote all the file IO code to use FSRefs and DataRefs (and are a complete kludge to work with from a developers perspective) which have a maximum file name length of 255 characters.

HTH..

Milton J. Aupperle

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On 13-Nov-05, at 11:12 AM, David Illig wrote:

After processing a movie (Mars) with Astro IIDC and reworking it a bit in Photoshop I hoped

that perhaps I could improve it a bit by trying various quality levels in Astro IIDC.

Subsequent attempts to process the movie resulted in a file error which reads "File Err

FSMakeFSSpec Err -37 / 0xffffffdb. When I click off that error message I receive a second

message to the effect that Astro IIDC cannot align any frames in this movie. The movie file

was not opened in any other app in the interim, or otherwise changed in any way that I know.

Where have I gone wrong!?

Thanks,