syrinx

Hello all, I encountered an odd bug just now. I'm using dropfile to load images into jit.movie. If the path contains an accented character (e.g. "é"), and the path length is greater than 170 characters, Max will crash.

I'm attaching a zip file containing a demo setup.

long_path_with_accent_crash.zip

Included is a folder called "é" with a test image (test.png) directly inside it. If you drop this onto the dropfile, it should load correctly.

The "é"" folder also contains two subfolders. One ("nested") contains 17 nested subfolders, each of which has a ten-character name, so that the total path length is definitely greater than 170 characters. The last of the subfolders inside "nested" (called "17________") contains a copy of test.png. The other subfolder directly inside "é" has a name that's more than 170 characters long, and also contains a copy of test.png. Dropping either of these copies of this image onto the dropfile will cause Max to instantly crash. In other words, the issue doesn't seem to be related to having too many layers of folder depth, or to overly-long folder names, but rather to overall path length.

I found that the limit is 170 characters by progressively testing. I made the subfolders substantially longer than 170 characters to account for variance in where you might place the "é" folder on your drive.

For comparison, there's also a folder called "e" with the exact same structure as "é." Dropping any of the images in this folder onto the dropfile works as expected.

I tested with a few other accented characters (î, ö, å) and they all cause Max to crash in the same way. Perhaps the best solution would be to avoid accented characters in paths altogether, but the fact that this only seems to become a problem in combination with the > 170 path length is confusing.

https://gist.github.com/evanmtp/1f5982bf76f8fdb696910dff22ef3eaa

Tested on two machines, one on macOS 10.14 and the other on Big Sur.

I tested with a few other accented characters (î, ö, å) and they all cause Max to crash in the same way. Perhaps the best solution would be to avoid accented characters in paths altogether, but the fact that this only seems to become a problem in combination with the > 170 path length is confusing.

Here's the crash log: https://gist.github.com/evanmtp/1f5982bf76f8fdb696910dff22ef3eaa 

Hello all, I encountered an odd bug just now. I'm using dropfile to load images into jit.movie. If the path contains an accented character (

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