Original Folder

Enter the folder where your pictures or files are.  You can click on the browse button to browse for the folder instead of typing it.  If you using Thumbs this would be the same folder you entered in Thumbs.

Destination Folder

Enter the folder where you can Shorts to make the shortened copy of all your files.

Do NOT enter the same folder has Original Folder above!!!

You can enter a folder that doesn't exist and it will be created.

Maximum Characters

There are probably only 3 values you'd want to enter here although you can enter anything between 12 and 255.

64: This is the limit for Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT CD-ROMs.
31: This is the limit for a Macintosh computer.  If you are are making a CD that might be seen on a Mac set it to 31
12: This is the setting for old computers like computers running Windows 3.1 or maybe some other operating system

Note: If you are curious why it's 12 and not 11 (8.3) characters it's because I count the period (ie, ABCDEFGH.HTM) = 12 characters.

Case

UNIX is case sensitive.  That means MyPicture.JPG and mypicture.JPG and mypicture.jpg would all be different files.  On Windows and Mac machines those files would all be the same.  If you are planning to have your CD viewed on a UNIX based machine (like Linux or FreeBSD etc.) then you'd want to pick "make UPPER" or "make lower"  Either would be fine.

Shorten Filenames

Click this to make it go.  Based on your settings, all the files and folders inside the folder you specified under "Original Folder" will be copied to the folder you specified under "Destination Folder" but the names will be shortened if they are over the limit you set.

Shorts will attempt to fix all your .HTM, .HTML and .JS files so they reference the new file names.

Help

Brings up this help

Exit

I'm not sure what this button does.  Experiment.

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