mcam8.1.1 and xp

[Noel]

Good day all

 

I recently had to reload mastercam on to a new computer because the old one died. the new computer is running windows XP. I remember having to run a patch that would allow you to use file names longer than 8 characters long when running XP. My problem is that I cant seem to find the patch. Does anyone know where I can find it? I have called tech support but the haven"t gotten back to me yet.

[Guest]

Noel,

 

I can find nothing, nothing even referencing it on the forum. Are you sure you're not thinking about the HASP drivers update for XP?

 

I just found this

 

Linky

 

and another

 

Linky2

[Lars Christensen]

+1 to John, I still have 8.1.1 loaded on my system, I don't recall having the issue with file name length.

[Ocean Lacky™]

I think file name length is a Windows thing. Seems to me that 8 characters was the limitation through Win95 and maybe even Win98. That was a long time ago, so I could be mistaken.

[Guest]

Windows 95 allowed 255 character length names, before that 8 was the limit. However I have seen problems in version 9, that if you post name was greater than 8 characters it would not show up, then again, V9 was DOS based so that does make sense.

[Ocean Lacky™]

I knew it was somewhere way back then! I do remember being excited about it at the time. I was running out of 8 char. combinations to be descriptive of my files!

[Noel]

Sorry I forgot to mention that I am running version 8.1.1. The last time we tried XP with version 8 we hade to change something to allow more than 8 characters. It may well have been a windows setting. I do have a call in to support.I wish my 42 year old brain would remember.

 

 

Thanks

Noel

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

Do you use hard disks disks from old computer ?

[Noel]

The files are stored on our server.

 

 

Noel

[Noel]

Files with long filenames do not show properly in Mastercam with this combination:

 

Mastercam style File Get dialog (set using the CNCReg util) *and* "Hide extensions for known files types" enabled in the Windows Explorer Folder Options.

 

Correct this by disabling "Hide extensions for known files types" in the Windows Explorer Folder Options - or using CNCReg to select the Standard style File Get dialog box.

 

 

Thanks John that is exactly what I needed and it worked great.

 

 

Noel

[Bryan Johnson]

From a windows folder, select the option to "Show files extensions for known files types".

 

This will fix the file naming problem with XP and version 8.