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AnaJana - Apr 18, 2008 - 9:06 am

I get this error message:
MacHacha can't handle files with Unicode names.
You can instead rename the file with plain ASCII characters and come back again later.

There are a lot of things I can figure out by myself- I'm an ICU nurse in my other life, so no stranger to problem solving- but this is beyond my experience.

DeltaMac - Apr 18, 2008 - 12:10 pm

Have you tried contacting the developer of macHacha?
http://homepage.mac.com/julifos/soft/support.html

- Dale

AnaJana - Apr 18, 2008 - 12:16 pm

yes, sorry, stupid of me to forget to say that. last wk, heard nothing. will try again. just thought there is some trick to renaming files i could learn.

DeltaMac - Apr 18, 2008 - 7:12 pm

Yes, I suppose you could just rename the files. You must have named some files with extended (special) characters. Or, did you get those files from somewhere else? Or, did you create the split files?

Are you having problems with splitting files for archiving? - or with joining files from previous archives?
If you are working with foreign language files, some of those may be naturally uni-code, and MacHacha may not handle those without you changing the file names yourself.
Can you tell me some more about the files that you are using?
- Dale

AnaJana - Apr 18, 2008 - 10:32 pm

splitting files. they're mostly movies. some i've torrented, some been sent. all are copies of movies i own on dvd but can't rip. i've friends in parts of the world where they either can't get or can't watch-on-tv/dvd some movies- so i send to them. [yes, i know it's iffy. yes. i DO buy the movies, or go see them in theatre, to support the industry. i'm from the 50's, not the 90's. *G*].

anyway, so. if i've downloaded something with, for instance, the title "Out.Of.The.Blue.2006.REAL.PROPER.LiMiTED.DVDRip.XviD-RKc"- and it worked in MacHacha when i had Tiger [latest update] but now doesn't in Leopard, what is it that's different? that's the file name of the torrent; this -"rkc-ootb.avi"> - is what i'm trying to re-split into 95mb pieces so that i can send it on. [by the way, it costs a fair amount to buy a DVD from New Zealand, did you know that? but it was worth it, to support the NZ film industry.]

if you can't go any further with this question because of the iffy-ness of this kind of file-sharing, i understand. i just thought, i might run into this with academic and professional files, too [am, as i say, a long-time nurse, and am involved in some several research projects at the moment].

it just struck me as very strange that it worked in Tiger and not in Leopard.

DeltaMac - Apr 19, 2008 - 1:43 pm

I'm not sure what the real difference is - but I have read the Leopard provides full support for unicode, and ASCII character support is deprecated.
I suppose that Machacha does not provide that full support, or could use Applescript as part of the program. In that case, unicode is supported, ASCII is not. I do know that Machacha has not been updated since te release of Leopard, so the program may not support that aspect (file names) properly with Leopard, where it is fine with Tiger - and that's what you are experiencing.
Yes, I don't care to provide support for copyright infringement - but that's not where your problem is. You have to communicate with Machacha's author to see if they will update for Leopard - or move to some other software that will support what you want to do, and actually claims to support Leopard....
Here's a possibility - http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32832
- Dale