Bug 410950 - New feature: Check file system compatibility
Summary: New feature: Check file system compatibility
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 136746
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2019-08-15 18:05 UTC by Matthias
Modified: 2019-08-15 18:29 UTC (History)
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Description Matthias 2019-08-15 18:05:09 UTC
The current file system landscape on removable devices is the same as 20 years ago, especially from an end users perspective: 

FAT32 is predominant here and despite KDE being a mainly a Linux oriented desktop environment, a considerable significant amount of people interact with these two file systems all the time. 

This also includes interaction with Android and so on. 
I suggest a new feature, that checks before a transition gets started if the file names are correct and so on. 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Copy a file with a colon in its name to a casual sd-card.
2. See an error message which explains zero about the root cause. 
3. Consider changing this. ;)

OBSERVED RESULT

The error message says zero about the true cause, or how to fix it. 

EXPECTED RESULT

"This file can not be copied since the target file system (FAT32) does not support the following characters: 

" * / : < > ? \ | + , . ; = [ ]

Please change the file name or the targets file system. 


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2019-08-15 18:29:18 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 136746 ***