Why do I get error that filenames longer than 31 characters are unsupported?

What is Scan Assistant (it's not an Apple app as far as I know)

So it happens when the print to pdf function is in use rather than the application Save As command, correct?

I too have found this intermittently, on OS X 10.9.1. The only correlation I've found so far is that when it has happened for me, it's been when saving to a folder that's shared using AFP. I can't be sure that's it, but I wonder if it's hitting an old code path related to really old AFP filename limitations.

I've had this issue come and go on the same shared folder (saving web archives from Safari) even without a reboot.

Hi,

Can you try to export the file to a location anywhere insdie the home folder or Shared folder and report back if the error occurrs or if the file is saved ok?

I've started encountering this issue since I updated to Mavericks. Any solution identified yet?

I see the error message when I try to save a pdf (having name larger than 31 characters) on my HD.

Unless you post the filename how can we know what (if anything) is illegal about it.

Or should I just take an uninformed guess.

Start your own thread, then you can have your own attention.

Csound1 wrote:

Unless you post the filename how can we know what (if anything) is illegal about it.

Or should I just take an uninformed guess.

Start your own thread, then you can have your own attention.

If you shed a little of your arrogance, you'll realize that I wrote - "filename larger than 31 chars" are not being accepted. I did comm+P on the below web page and the filename was imported from the article title which is greater than 31 characters.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/19/world/meast/syria-geneva-talks

So don't provide the information, it's your choice to solicit guesses. in the thread you are trying to hijack. And if it is not important enough for you to create your own thread it's not important enough for me to take a guess.

Good luck and goodbye.

I did provide the link and explained the steps to see the error (i.e. to save the above article in my disk). The issue gets resolved when I restart my mac but reappears after some time.

P.S. I did not create a new thread on this since the issue was already listed. Just wanted to highlight that it is being faced by multiple users.

Just to add data to Leslie's post:

- I intermittently experience this error when manipulating PDFs. I frequently cannot save PDF attachments from Mail, and instead have to browse to the folder and manually copy the attachment through the file system.

- I have had trouble exporting PDFs from Pages (newest version).

- Files are being saved within my home directory. I have encountered this error only through Mail and Pages, and never on file system copy or move operations, even when dealing with the same folders.

- My HDD is not showing errors and is HFS+ Journaled and Encrypted.

- Never had this problem before Mavericks.

So to summarize my experience, this is not a HDD issue; it is a problem in Mail and Pages, if not other programs; it is limited to Mavericks; it only affects PDFs; and it is not a network volume error.

I have ran into this problem as well. I am running Mavericks 10.9.2 and Mail 7.2 (1874).

When I try to save a pdf attachment from an e-mail, it shows me the same error (31 character limit). I have tried saving the file to other locations, as was suggested earlier in the thread, on the internal hard drive (Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)) but I keep getting the same message. I tried "/" and "/System" with no luck. I have also tried creating a new folder from the "Save Attachment..." dialog but an error pops up telling me that this location is write protected. "ls -l" shows me that I am the owner of the folder and that I do have write permissions (rwx). I confirmed this by using "touch" to create a dummy file in both locations and I was also able to create new folders in both locations from the command line.

The documents I am trying to save have private titles but there are no illegal characters in them. The file names have upper and lower case letters, numbers and an underscore. No spaces are in the file name. The extension is .pdf

I'll go reboot now so I can save the files I need 🙂

Yep, I have the same problem when trying to save email messages as text files. I am encountering the same error with the 31 character limit, and then if using a short file name I get a 'Could not save to path' message.