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christoffert35272862
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March 22, 2017
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Save for web filename gets truncated

  • March 22, 2017
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Photoshop Elements 14

We have a user that does a fair bit of editing and uses the save for web for a quicker workflow, which seems to work well for them. However they're having a somewhat annoying problem whenever the filename contains a dot.

Example: 10.008.25_3.jpg becomes 10.008.jpg when trying to save it through the save for web feature.

Since the user both resizes the images and saves them to another location the save for web feature is quite the timesaver - as long as the filename dosn't have dots in it.

Is there any way to change the behavior of this? Normal 'save as' keeps the original filename intact.

Thanks in advance for any input.

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    Correct answer MichelBParis

    christoffert35272862  wrote

    Sadly we get the images from various third party sources, often sent to us in fairly large batches and as such don't really have control over the file naming standard on the source side. I'm sure we can rename them through some script,

    Sadly, today, people ignore the very basics of computers and file naming.

    Ignore the rules and you are 100% sure of getting similar problems.

    In my opinion, you are doing a diservice to your sources by accepting such horrors. Would not it be more useful to reject the input and to give the authors a reminder of the rules?

    - a stop only to separate the file name from the extension

    - no special characters except underscore and hyphens.

    christoffert35272862 

    or simply go back to an older copy of Elements (10 I think) that didn't have this issue as far as I'm aware.

    The issue is bound to appear with any software and that won't change in the future.

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    99jon
    99jon
    Genius
    March 22, 2017

    It is best to avoid periods (full-stop) characters in file names as many programs and operating systems treat them as illegal characters  except the final period to define file type e.g. before .jpg etc. Use something like 10_008_25-3.jpg 

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    christoffert35272862Author
    Participant
    March 22, 2017

    Sadly we get the images from various third party sources, often sent to us in fairly large batches and as such don't really have control over the file naming standard on the source side. I'm sure we can rename them through some script, or simply go back to an older copy of Elements (10 I think) that didn't have this issue as far as I'm aware.

    MichelBParis
    MichelBParisCorrect answer
    Legend
    March 22, 2017

    christoffert35272862  wrote

    Sadly we get the images from various third party sources, often sent to us in fairly large batches and as such don't really have control over the file naming standard on the source side. I'm sure we can rename them through some script,

    Sadly, today, people ignore the very basics of computers and file naming.

    Ignore the rules and you are 100% sure of getting similar problems.

    In my opinion, you are doing a diservice to your sources by accepting such horrors. Would not it be more useful to reject the input and to give the authors a reminder of the rules?

    - a stop only to separate the file name from the extension

    - no special characters except underscore and hyphens.

    christoffert35272862 

    or simply go back to an older copy of Elements (10 I think) that didn't have this issue as far as I'm aware.

    The issue is bound to appear with any software and that won't change in the future.

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