Files don't appear in 64 bit Hardy that appear in 32 bit Hardy

Bug #325129 reported by Gary V Deutschmann Sr
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 64 bit version cannot read all the file names created in the 32 bit version or in the Doze.
More simply, I finally built a file server and copied all of our files over to it using a 32 bit version of Ubuntu........
ALL of the document files are VISIBLE in the 32 bit version on ALL of our Ubuntu computers!
They can be opened with Open Office, Edited and rewritten (or even simply copied) to ANY shared folder on ANY 32 bit Ubuntu Computer, including the File Server, EXCEPT the computer with the newly installed 64 bit version of Ubuntu. It generates the error, Invalid Argument! (Actually this is GOOD! So the complaint is not here! It's how I found the problem!)

Where the problem lies is that the 64 bit version of Ubuntu cannot SEE these particular files as they reside on any computer or on the file server. If the file is on the hard drive, and the 32 bit versions can see it, open it, copy it, etc. Then so should the 64 bit version.

It's OBVIOUS there is a illegal naming convention in the files. They CAN be opened and the filenames corrected using a 32 bit version of Ubuntu. But it will take virtually FOREVER to amend the file names of over 150,000 files doing them one at a time! It took long enough to go through all of our .doc files and convert them to .odt files AND we were able to save all of these files over the three recent months it took to do this!

It's OK to NOT ALLOW illegal characters to be used in file names! And give a Warning!
But it's NOT OK to SHOW these files in ONE Version of Ubuntu and NOT in another version of Ubuntu!
They are there, so SHOW THEM and allow them to be opened to be fixed.

As it stand right now, our ONLY alternative is to DELETE the 64 bit version and return to the more user friendly 32 bit version! Checking on PROPERTIES shows these files are there! But they do NOT appear in the 64 bit version.

The 32 bit version of Ubuntu will NOT allow a file search for the illegal characters, in order to find and correct them!
But it doesn't know they are errors either as through todays date, we have been using this file naming convention on numerous documents and the 32 bit version never complained that there were ANY illegal file name characters in use.

Didn't see my log-in when I started this, so I am:
Gary V Deutschmann Sr
<email address hidden>
Kellemora on the Ubuntu Forums

If you need any more information!

I'm also reporting to Open Office that their OOoWriter allows one to save files with illegal characters with no warnings!

TTUL
Gary

Revision history for this message
George Lesica (oldmanstan) wrote :

Can you provide an example of an illegal file name? I'm not quite sure what is actually wrong here. Are you sure that you have permissions on those files on the new machine?

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Michael Nagel (nailor) wrote :

could you please provide more detailed information as requested?

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Incomplete
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Michael Nagel (nailor) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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