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  1. Bug #18562
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 18562

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Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) wrote :

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.