nautilus passes invalid URIs to bulk-rename-tool

[Timo Palomaa]

Spaces or cyrillic symbols in folder names are not passed correctly. For example, for the selected files "/home/user/untitled/untitled folder/testfile*"", nautilus passes the following URIs as arguments:

file:///home/user/untitled/untitled02/testfile1
file:///home/user/untitled/untitled02/testfile2

And for "/home/user/untitled/папка/testfile*", the following URIs:

file:///home/user/untitled/0F000F0A00/testfile1
file:///home/user/untitled/0F000F0A00/testfile2

Reprod on: 3.4.2 (me), 3.6.3 (me), 3.8.1

Originally reported in nautilus-renamer:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus-renamer/+bug/1140872
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus-renamer/+bug/1166327

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-21.32-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri May 24 08:02:22 2013
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1025x628+195+61'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'183'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-24 (150 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-25 (28 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stephen Barnes (abqsteve-u)]

I noticed the bug appears if the original filename contains a space. Any spaces in the original filename are passed as "0".
For example: "test filename.jpg" becomes "test0filename.jpg"

[melo (carmeloscollo)]

Any updates about this? Sounds like a papercut bug to me.
Since I am using nautilus-renamer, which imo is the best GUI based batch renaming tool available for gnome, I would love to contribute a solution, because after 8 months this bug is still confirmed but unassigned. Any pointers on how to get started/where to look at?

Thanks in advance!

[Luke (tiliqua-au)]

As a workaround for nautilus-renamer - install the Nautilus-Actions Configuration Tool, create a new action and in the Command tab set the path to /usr/share/nautilus-renamer/nautilus-renamer.py and the parameters to %U (a space separated list of the file/folder URIs which correctly encodes spaces as "%20" instead of "0")

[LSK (nazarenkoal)]

File names received from GList parameter in invoke_external_bulk_rename_utility are URL-encoded. Spaces in names replaced with '%20' literal.

Glib processes arguments and checks if for macro literals. It treats '%20' as macro '%2' and symbol '0'. So it filters out '%2' and leaves only zero.
E.g. 'file:///long%20directory/file%20name' will be translated to 'file:///long0directory/file0name'

One of the possible solutions is to URL-unescape file names.

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