Adobe Photoshop CS8 File Name Size Limit

June 24, 2007

Adobe Photoshop CS 8.0 has a nasty habit of truncating filenames longer than 31 characters when you use the “Save for Web…” feature. There are settings that control this behavior, but they are kinda hard to find.

To prevent Photoshop from chopping off the end of your filenames:

1. Create or open a file
2. Select “Save for Web…” (Alt-Shift-Ctrl-S) from the File menu
3. Next to the “Preset” select there’s a circle with an arrow through it. Click it and select “Edit Output Settings…”

   

1. In the “Saving Files”dialog, under “Filename Compatibilty”, uncheck “Max OS 9″

   

2. OK the dialog and then click “Done” in the main Save For Web dialog.

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7 Responses to “Adobe Photoshop CS8 File Name Size Limit”

1. Ken said:
   

   August 16th, 2007 at 7:15 am

   Wow! Thanks for this tip. Saves me so much time now.

2. mahmoudhazem said:
   

   September 3rd, 2007 at 6:08 am

   thank you

3. Sean said:
   

   September 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

   Thanks, this helped alot, but one last tip that I needed to add for users of CS2:

   Once you make the change, click the ’save’ button on the bottom right and overwrite the ‘Default Settings’ preset.

   I found that even when making the change it would revert back to ‘default’ on other images. Overwriting the default did the trick.

4. Billy said:
   

   November 14th, 2007 at 3:48 pm

   This is nice for Save for web. I really could use something along the same lines for CS2/3 for contact sheets. The filenames get truncated there and we would like to use more for detailed filename.

5. Tom M said:
   

   December 27th, 2007 at 11:46 am

   THANK YOU! This has been driving me CRAZY!

6. Frank Jones said:
   

   February 6th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

   Oh My!!! Thank YOU!!! Why would there not be some mention of that in help… I hated to think that just because a client had image names that were way too long for normal use that upon resizing them all I would have to relink to them all as well… you’ve saved me a lot of time. Thanks again!

7. Cyde Weys said:
   

   March 18th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

   Thanks for the tip. What a terrible, unintuitive placement of the setting. The popup dialog attempting to explain how to find this setting was of no use to all.

   Why is Adobe having Photoshop default into a compatibility mode for Mac OS 9?! Talk about annoying 99 people for the benefit of 0.1

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