Steve Fryatt wrote on 12 Aug: > On 12 Aug, cj wrote in message > <54f1f9a962ch...@chris-johnson.org.uk>:
>> In article <cd18f7f154....@abbeypress.net>, >> Jim Nagel <nets...@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Warning from Netsurf >>> The file could not be saved due to an error: >>> 'ADFS::Drive2.$.2310d/zip' is a directory >> >> This is a common error and nothing to do with Netsurf as such. It is due >> to some oddity with SparkFS and handling of zip files, and seems to depend >> on how the original zip was produced (software). I get it from >> Filer_Action when running SyncDisc jobs. > I'm not sure it's that odd. If SparkFS has been seen and the zip file has > the correct filetype, RISC OS will report the object to NetSurf as a > directory, not a file (/some/ calls will report it as an "image directory", > but others won't). In fact what caused the error was that the drive already had an object with the same name as the download I wanted to save ("2310d/zip"). The text of the warning was totally inappropriate and misleading. >>> (2) The text of the warning was not recorded by !Syslog (whose job is to >>> make it easy for people submitting bug reports to quote the exact >>> wording of an error message). I searched the whole log and found >>> nothing from Netsurf. > Some confusion? There's no single SysLog log, so it isn't clear which "whole > log" Jim searched... I searched anything in !Syslog.Logs with a recent datestamp, particularly the logfile called WIMP. ... > NetSurf uses its own non-blocking error dialogues, so WimpLog won't > ever see the errors reported. > In terms of bug reporting, NetSurf's own log is far more detailed and > far more useful. Does Netsurf record a warning such as this one in its log file? Its current files are 0 length, possibly because I have rebooted since the incident, so can't check. But I searched for "warning" in an old Netsurf logfile that I saved for some reason, and turned up nothing. Anyway, it'd be more helpful if Netsurf's download routine would say "an object of that name already exists; do you want to overwrite it?" rather than relay this wuzzy "is a directory" wuzziness. -- Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk