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leahkay - 12 Sep 2005 02:05 GMT

I get this error message " The file name, directory name or volumn
label syntax is incorrect". What does this mean and how do I fix it?

Thanks You,

Leah

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Mickey Stevens - 12 Sep 2005 02:14 GMT

If applicable, try removing special characters from the hard drive name
(like é, ñ), and see if that helps.

On 9/11/05 8:05 PM, in article
1126487113.284179.38510@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com, "leahkay"
<msleahv1@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I get this error message " The file name, directory name or volumn
> label syntax is incorrect". What does this mean and how do I fix it?
>
> Thanks You,
>
> Leah

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musicworks1@gmail.com - 12 Sep 2005 23:19 GMT

I have the same problem, running WMP 9 under Tiger 10.4.2. I've tried
trashing plists, reinstalling WMP, and my hard drive is still the
"Macintosh HD" it's always been.

In fact, one prefs file recommended to be trashed by another
thread--com.microsoft.mediaplayer--cannot be found on my PowerBook G4
at all. Any other ideas?

Fred

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 13 Sep 2005 00:26 GMT

> I have the same problem, running WMP 9 under Tiger 10.4.2. I've tried
> trashing plists, reinstalling WMP, and my hard drive is still the
> "Macintosh HD" it's always been.

Special characters in the name of any folder in the path to the file
have the same consequences.

> In fact, one prefs file recommended to be trashed by another
> thread--com.microsoft.mediaplayer--cannot be found on my PowerBook G4
> at all. Any other ideas?

Have you ever managed to play a WMP file on your Mac ?? Even the demo
file installed with the app ???
If you go to the Fidner and press command-shift-g and paste
~/Library/Preferences/ in the pane, you should get in your pref folder.
If you've ever played anything in WMP "com.microsoft.mediaplayer.plist"
should definitively be there.
If it isn't, you might have a permission issue (use Disk Utility to
repair permissions on your drive),

Corentin

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jim - 19 Sep 2005 11:34 GMT

I get the same error message, were you able to fix it.?
If so would you please tell me how.

Jim

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error message windows media player for Mac osX