> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting