Bug 136746 - When attempting to copy a file to a filesystem that doesn't support some of the characters in the filename, inform the user of this fact
Summary: When attempting to copy a file to a filesystem that doesn't support some of t...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: frameworks-kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Faure
URL:
Keywords: usability
: 410950 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-11-03 01:27 UTC by Haeber
Modified: 2021-08-09 12:13 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Latest Commit: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/commit/2750b5b455cc5eed15f4cfd049d88cf749a58594
Version Fixed In: 5.86
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Description Haeber 2006-11-03 01:27:57 UTC 
Version:           3.5.5 (using KDE 3.5.5 "release 19.1" , openSUSE )
Compiler:          Target: i586-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.16.21-0.25-default

If you copy files with filenames that aren't supported to the destination filesystem the alert-box only tell you that the copy did not work. There should mentioned why it did not work.

create a file with an irregular file name like "one*star.txt", then copy it to an FAT-drive (e.g. a USB-stick or a mobile harddisk). Now a alert-box pops up that it can't copy to this distination. This message should also include that it didn't copy the file 'cause of it's irregular file name.

Best regards
Thomas
Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-10-03 14:53:50 UTC 
Shouldn't this be a kio wish?
Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2019-08-15 18:29:18 UTC 
*** Bug 410950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2021-07-26 19:10:40 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/520
Comment 4 Ahmad Samir 2021-08-09 12:13:29 UTC 
Git commit 2750b5b455cc5eed15f4cfd049d88cf749a58594 by Ahmad Samir.
Committed on 09/08/2021 at 11:17.
Pushed by dfaure into branch 'master'.

CopyJob: ask users about replacing invalid characters in file/folder names

Some Windows filesystems disallow certain characters, which would result in
the copy/move ...etc failing if one of the files has one of those characters.

Now the user can select to replace those invalid characters with an "_".
Related: bug 199063
FIXED-IN: 5.86

M  +311  -106  src/core/copyjob.cpp

https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/commit/2750b5b455cc5eed15f4cfd049d88cf749a58594