Subject:Media Library names

Posted by: knowbody

Date:11/23/2004 2:45:01 AM

Anyone else had problems with the Media manager rejecting library file names? I wanted to create a library named master but it wouldn't let me. I had to settle for the name "main".

Chris (Hunt)

Subject:RE: Media Library names

Reply by: jwf

Date:11/23/2004 8:15:56 AM

The reserved names are master, model, msdb, and tempdb.

These names are reserved by the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) and therefore cannot be used. Master is the name of the database that Microsoft uses to store all sorts of operational data.

There are also certain naming convention restrictions dictated by MSDE (length less than 128, must start with a letter, must consist of letters, digits, spaces, hyphens, or underscores).

Subject:RE: Media Library names

Reply by: knowbody

Date:11/23/2004 2:54:47 PM

Thanks for the info - so this is a Microsoft thing. Acid kept flashing up a message about naming conventions, I wasn't breaking those and couldn't understand why it kept rejecting the name.

Chris

Subject:RE: Media Library names

Reply by: jwf

Date:11/23/2004 3:13:09 PM

We'll get the error message to be more accurate. Sorry for the confusion.