Truncated filenames in "Save for Web"

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Durant_Imboden
Jan 5, 2004
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When I save files with long names using the "Save for Web" command in Photoshop Elements 2.0, the filenames are truncated at 27 characters. Is there a solution for this?

(I’m new to PhotoShop Elements 2.0, having just upgraded from PS Elements 1.0 on a Windows 2000 PC to PS Elements 2.0 on a Windows XP Professional machine.)
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Mac_McDougald
Jan 5, 2004
In Full PhotoShop, there is separate SaveForWeb option menu. If you uncheck Unix and Mac compatibility, you can save as longer. But that option menu doesn’t seem to exist in Elements.
Never really understood that though, as both Unix and Mac OS servers allow more than 27 AFAIK. (certainly Unix/Linux does).

27 ought to be plenty, though, eh?

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Durant_Imboden
Jan 5, 2004
Thanks. What’s odd is that I could save longer filenames in Photoshop Elements 1.0. So, if the option doesn’t exist in 2.0, it would seem to be a step backward.

As for why I need filenames longer than 27 characters, it’s a long story, but there is a method to my madness. 🙂 I have a Web site with thousands of images, and I’ve devised a system whereby a photo for my Europe Travel Planner that shows a bedroom in a certain London hotel might be named:

plan_england_london_hotel_baglioni_bedroom.jpg

This works well for finding and inserting jmages in Web pages, and I’d hate to change horses in midstream (so to speak) just because Photoshop Elements 2.0 makes me use shorter filenames or rename files manually in Windows Explorer after they’ve been saved.
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Mac_McDougald
Jan 5, 2004
I don’t see any way round it with Elements 2 than to rename after the fact.

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Durant_Imboden
Jan 5, 2004
That’s annoying. I hate paying for upgrades that make me less productive!

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