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Written by reynir on 2024-11-12 at 21:19

I was transferring music files from my computer to my phone. One of the files has a question mark in its name. Apparently this was so unexpected that Nautilus (GNOME file manager) started throwing stack traces all over, and for a while it was impossible for me to mount the phone again.

It took me a while to figure out it was the file name. Renamed the file without the question mark and things went smooth.

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Written by ed(1) conference on 2024-11-12 at 22:03

@reynir I got so tired of similar annoyances that I have a "send podcasts/MP3 files to my phone" shell-script that has a filename sanitizing pass, using rename(1) to rename all the files to just alphanumerics and underscores. Saves so much headache.

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Written by reynir on 2024-11-13 at 22:22

@ed1conf if it weren't for it being so rare that I transfer files to my phone I'd ask you to share the script :D

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Written by This is lobo sp*king on 2024-11-13 at 07:28

@reynir you're not alone :-) had the same issue with pcmanfm-qt. I also decided to live with it. I remember that the issue was related to the MTP protocol, which is used for the file transfer

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Written by reynir on 2024-11-13 at 22:25

@lobo interesting. It's such a terrible failure mode. The file manager is helpful to suggest I maybe rename files when copying clashes with existing files. I feel it should offer something similar when there's a limitation in the protocol - but nooo, let's just crash and enter a bad state instead.

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Written by This is lobo sp*king on 2024-11-13 at 22:52

@reynir Yes, really a terrible failure mode from a usability perspective. I've read that MTP should support UTF-8, but my tests with special characters like ? and German umlauts always crashed the file-manager. But I didn't dig deeper and obeyed to the software behavior instead 🙂

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