[SLUG] Nautilus log files

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>> Hi ppl
>>
>> Another ..
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>> OK, so I'm writing DVDs and with one set of data Nautilus won't
>> write
>> because it comes up with an error "File image creation failed,
>> Incorrectly coded string".
>>
> Is this about not being able to write to DVD (or CD for that matter)
> files greater than a certain length?

File names or file sizes? I do have a 500Mb file in there, but that
can't be the problem otherwise you'd never be able to write an ISO. OK
.. filename .. I'll work on that.

Cheers

> If that's the case, again K3b
> deals with it, telling you that it has done so (something to do with
> Joliet, which, when I looked it up on the internet, said that, apart
> from a town in the USA, where, I presume the process was invented,
> it's
> about cutting filenames down to the required size - or, at least, is
> about the protocol that doesn't allow longer filenames).
> Martin
> (PS 'sed s\ there\ their' in my last posting)
>> I could binary chop through the files to iterate my way towards the
>> errant  file, but I thought I should be able to check an error log
>> file somewhere.
>>
>> A search for Nautilus or Fedora 4 error logs didn't seem to bring
>> much
>> up of any use, nor did a wander around the Fedora site. I've a whole
>> partition for error logs so they don't blow up the system, and I
>> know
>> to tail a file so I'm thinking this should be possible, that it
>> might
>> be the right thing to do.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Cheers
>> J
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