Cubase truncating imported file names

Cubase
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Can anyone think of a reason why Cubase would truncate file names when importing them ?

I have some loops that I saved from previous projects. I made them myself and I put the tempo in the title i.e; “Nashville sticks-78.aif”. But when Cubase imports the file it removes the -78 from the file name. But if I import the same file with the tempo at the beginning of the name, “72-Nashville sticks.aif” the file name stays intact.

AND this seems to only happen when I choose to Copy the file to the working directory. If I import the very same file but DO NOT choose to import the file into the working directory, the file name stays intact.

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Cubase appends filenames in exactly this format to allow you to import different files with the same name…it will automatically update the new filename incrementally to -01, -02 etc when placed into your project folder.

So I would recommend you alter your naming scheme to work around this, anything other than a hyphen followed by a number will not get changed.

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Thanks for the reply.