i have a working flash app on winblows. i so much want to develop on a mac ;-), however, the same app fails to work and load the xml data, and the only conclusion i can drawn is it is the length of the filename, which is 50 characters long? i rename all the files to foo.xml, bar.xml (in the exact same relative location) and my app on mac loads them fine.

i can't change the file names since they are autogenerated and actually contain data in the name which make them searchable/meaningful on the file system.

is this a bug?

No, this is a limitation on the Mac OS. If your application does not
support long file names, using MacOS X does not help. Applications ported
from classic MacOS often inherit the 31 characters limit. This is quickly
changing as Mac developers update their products to adopt the latest system
technologies. So this may be a Flash issue, but you could try giving it a
32 character name and see if you still have the problem. If you do, then
you know it's a limitation with no workaround currently.

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Shane Elliott
www.timberfish.com
www.killerflashtips.com


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;-), however, the same app fails to work and load the xml data, and the only
conclusion i can drawn is it is the length of the filename, which is 50
characters long? i rename all the files to foo.xml, bar.xml (in the exact
same relative location) and my app on mac loads them fine.
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contain data in the name which make them searchable/meaningful on the file
system.
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