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nautilus gives perplexing error message while copying some files to vfat

Bug #18562 reported by Allison Karlitskaya
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Bug Description

I was trying to copy a file with a '?' in the filename to my vorbis player which
is a USB device (nicely automounted by Ubuntu) with a VFAT filesystem on it.

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         Error While Copying
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  Error "Invalid parameters" while
  copying "/home/desrt...iou.ogg".

  Would you like to continue?

       [ Skip ] [ Cancel ] [ Retry ]
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This error message confuses me an awful lot. As far as I know, I'm performing a
valid operation to a device that has enough free space. I don't know that VFAT
doesn't support certain characters and this error message doesn't make that fact
any more obvious to me. The only-slightly-guessable filename isn't even the one
that had the '?' in it (and in fact, the shown filename was transfered
successfully!).

More to the point: it should 'just work'. Something (nautilus, kernel) should
just change the ? to a _ or remove it entirely.

I tried adding 'check=relaxed' to the mount options (which the mount manpage
seems to suggest might help) but it had no effect.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309584: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309584

See original description
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Uphaar Agrawalla (uphaar) wrote :

(In reply to comment #0)
> More to the point: it should 'just work'. Something (nautilus, kernel) should
> just change the ? to a _ or remove it entirely.
>

This sounds a little like bug 18495 - nautilus shouldn't be changing filenames
chosen by the user.

Perhaps the error dialog could be made a little more informative, but having
nautilus/kernel change user-specified file names might not be sensible.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thanks for your bug, I've forwarded it upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309584

I'm not sure than nautilus should change the filenames, but the message is
probably to change

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Chris Wagner (chris-wagner) wrote :

This is probably the same as bug 41931.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in nautilus:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.23.6.1-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:2.23.6.1-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Fix display name of computer:// icons

nautilus (1:2.23.6-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Support transferring files with reserved FAT characters
      to a FAT file system (lp: #18562)
      Replace them with an underscore if neccessary
    - Use x-content/* MIME type to associate applications
      with hotpluggable media
    Path bar
     - enable control-left click and middle-click interaction for
       path bar buttons (lp: #228213)
     - dynamically handle hierarchy changes in the path bar
    Icon view keyboard navigation
     - Use linear selection instead of rectangle selection in
       when pressing shift
     - Still offer rectangular selection when pressing ctrl and shift
     - Only wrap around horizontally in horizontal layout mode,
     - Only wrap around vertically in vertical layout mode
     - Never wrap around when in rectangle selection
    - Icon view now remembers last position when reloading in vertical layout
    - List view: Do not request mass redraw when dragging (lp: #205649)
    - Clear display name when changing file name
    - Only show "... All" actions ("Skip All", ...) in file operation dialogs
      if more than one file is transferred
    - Identify to GNOME session as file manager,
      not as generic desktop application
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libglib requirement

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:09:10 +0200

Changed in nautilus:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Low
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