[SLUG] Nautilus log files

[Martin Webb]

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
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>> 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".
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> 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.
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>> 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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