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it happens also to old Max-foxes to create a folder or a name with a slash (e.g. Song/texts/melody), I know this is deadly. It would help a lot, if the drop file-object would spit out a warning, if a name with a slash appears. Is that possible to implement? It's not in the front of thinking and it takes forever to find it...Sorry, I know it's my stupidity, but it happens...

it happens also to old Max-foxes to create a folder or a name with a slash (e.g. Song/texts/melody), I know this is deadly. It would help a lot, if the drop file-object would spit out a warning, if a name with a slash appears. Is that possible to implement? It's not in the front of thinking and it takes forever to find it...Sorry, I know it's my stupidity, but it happens...
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it happens also to old Max-foxes to create a folder or a name with a slash (e.g. Song/texts/melody), I know this is deadly. It would help a 

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solve it by requesting the type or trying to open the whole path, going through it segment by segment:

user/Song/texts <- doesnt open, so "texts" is not a folder

user/Song/texts/melody <- opens, so this folder is called "text/melody"

but may i ask when you need that? for storing and recalling paths it should not matter. 

more problematic is when a filename has a slash...


you could solve it by requesting the type or trying to open the whole path, going through it segment by segment:
 
user
user/Song
user/Song/texts <- doesnt open, so "texts" is not a folder
user/Song/texts/melody <- opens, so this folder is called "text/melody"

but may i ask when you need that? for storing and recalling paths it should not matter.  

more problematic is when a filename has a slash...


OK, I need it for an app I built that works as a powerful presentation software and to load in files for the presentation I use dropfile. But then if there are some old files that contain slashes in the name it refuses. Anyhow it is not a big issue, only disturbing sometimes. Thanks for considering.

aha, so when it is in the filename you would probably need the atoi surgery toolkit in addition. not sure if it is worth, maybe someone has a better idea.

and while you are on it, windows is even more restrictive than max, hopefully you dont have + or {} in your filenames.

aha, so when it is in the filename you would probably need the atoi surgery toolkit in addition. not sure if it is worth, maybe someone has a better idea.

and while you are on it, windows is even more restrictive than max, hopefully you dont have + or {} in your filenames.


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