[SLUG] Nautilus log files

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

No problem, on the back of that and with a bit of binary chopping I
found the problem. I'd had some photographs sent over from Norway and
I think they'd put a Norwegian character into the filename which
Linux/Nautilus marked with a ? and something like (Linux unrecognised
character) after it in the file name.

I removed the ? and the () bit and it worked a treat.

It takes me back to this sort of nonsense when we moved from, what was
it, 8.3 eight characters, a dot, and a three character extension and
then some new fangled '98 machines (?) came along that could handle
longer names and when one talked to t'other it all went wrong.

Oh well, thanks for all your help.

Onwards.
J

> Martin Webb wrote:
> Sorry, correction to the bit I wrote below, starting "Is this about
> not
> being ... " - it's not length of file I was talking about, but length
> of
> file name.  The 'name' bit got left out.
> Martin
>> john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
>>> Hi ppl
>>>
>>> Another ..
>>>
>>> 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?  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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