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Problem with Handheld Sync Where Directory Name Would Have a Trailing Period

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mwillems:

--- Quote from: bob on August 04, 2020, 05:26:39 pm ---Ok, interesting, on fat32 a trailing . is actually illegal for directory names.
We were handling that on windows automatically. The linux and Mac filesystems can handle it OK but of course not fat32 connected handhelds.
So we are going to strip that trailing . when writing to a handheld device on all platforms, not just windows.

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I was converting on the fly, and it sounds like you figured it out, thanks! 

The handheld is FAT32 or EXFAT.  The NAS uses btrfs locally, but exposes the filesystem to JRiver via samba, and samba adds windows-esque filesystem constraints.  For example, I ran into an issue where I unintentionally had duplicate directories with differing case (e.g. "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds" + "Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds"), which is fine and legal on linux native FSes, but when I shared them via samba, the clients couldn't see both directories at once and it led to weird results.

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