On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Jonathan Buzzard <jonat...@buzzard.me.uk> wrote: > On 18/02/13 19:16, Ray wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I suppose this question must have been posted a hundred times, but >> Google brings up nothing useful: >> >> Consider "The Wall" from Pink Floyd in an MP3 collection. There's "In >> The Flesh.mp3" and "In The Flesh?.mp3" as tracks. Or, another example in >> an MP3 collection: There's a Band called "Stellar", but there's also a >> band called "Stellar*". Naming files like this is no problem in Linux. >> > > Anyone putting "special" characters in file names has a special place in > hell reserved for them. It is plain stupid, just don't do it. > > Personally I would name them all wall01.mp3, wall02.mp3 etc. and add ID3 > tags to them. Any decent graphical file manager and/or music player will > display the tag information. Stop abusing the filename to store metadata > when there is a standard for storing that metadata in the file. > > JAB. > > -- > Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk > Fife, United Kingdom. > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
JAB, have you ever pulled down a website with wget? Have you ever looked at www.dropbox.com/bad_files_check which shows all the native files on your Linux box that will never make it to windows. Is there some kind of regular expression transliterate functionality? A way to force windows only characters for samba shares? Ray, on more than one occasion swat has documentation that is nowhere else. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba