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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Is there a way to copy weird named files form Konqueror?

From: Kate Draven <borglabs4@...>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:35:24 -0400
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:49:50PM +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > All these files have names as:
> > 
> > Albinoni, Tomaso - 01 - Concerto No. 1 for Violin in B flat major, Op. 
9%2F1: 
> > 1. Allegro.ogg
> > 
> > And konqueror does not manage to copy them.
> 
> How are you trying to copy them? What steps do you take and what happens 
> when you try it?
> 
> Under Linux, I see no reason why you can't copy that file. I created a 
> test file like this in the shell (bash):
> 
>     touch "Albinoni concerto%2F1:1. Allegro.ogg"
> 
> 
> opened my home directory in Konquorer, single-clicked on the file, typed 
> Ctrl-C to copy, moved to another directory and typed Ctrl-V to paste, 
> and the file copied fine. Unless there's a bug in your version of Konq 
> which mine doesn't have, it should be able to deal with file names 
> containing spaces, colons and percent signs easily.
> 
> If that doesn't work, do you get an explicit error message?
> 
> If so, try copying the files using bash. Open a terminal, and cd to the 
> directory where the CD is mounted. I don't know what that will be on 
> your system, but it could be something like this:
> 
>     cd /media/DISK
> 
> say. You could try listing the contents of /media or /mnt to find out 
> for sure where the CD is mounted.
> 
> Once you have cd'ed into the right place, try viewing the files 
> to ensure they are real files:
> 
>     ls -lh *.ogg
> 
> 
> Assuming they aren't all zero-length, check that they're readable:
> 
>     hexdump Albinoni*1.\ Allegro.ogg | less
> 
> ought to do it. If you get a screen full of hex codes like this:
> 
>     0166bd0 8db8 6716 e0bd 9243 4775 6eb0 9f2c a246
>     0166be0 c276 8580 d85f 987e 585c fa07 bfe8 4814
>     0166bf0 b59a 401d 8668 830a 5b35 e56c 670a 27bf
>     0166c00 53a5 a55b 563b 78de b3c7 69bc 1600 83b7
> 
> it looks good. Hit the Q key to exit and try copying the files to a new 
> folder in your home directory:
> 
>     mkdir ~/Albinoni
>     cp *.ogg ~/Albinoni
> 
> Do the files copy now? If not, what's the error message?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
You can try this too.

Make sure there are no "white" spaces in front of the file and dir name.

Change the dir name from 
Albinoni, Tomaso - 01 - Concerto No. 1 for Violin in B flat major, Op. 9%2F1
To
Albinoni_Tomaso_-_01_-_Concerto_No_1_for_Violin_in_B_flat_majorP_Op_9_2F1
Then try again.

Kate