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Ext4 => ExFAT -- how can I find long filenames and prohibited characters?

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drmimosa:
Ok, a near success, small failure. Like most of my adventures in Linux, ha.

Attempt 1: Rename, Move Copy for all 31,772 audio files. It failed somewhere at 22,000, and left the ExFAT mount in a Read-Only state.

Attempt 2: Rename, Move, Copy, this time with the following limits:

Directories Rule: [File Type]/[Genre]/Left([Album Artist (auto)],254)
Filename Rule: [Track #] - Left([Name],254)

This worked - but a new library importing the new folder now has 31,604 files, a difference of 168 files.

Conclusions:

1. First attempt failed because RMC doesn't automatically truncate filename elements over 255 characters.
2. I probably have some duplicate albums or files in my library - or some bad files.

I attempted a bunch of old ways of getting CSV album lists, but that was beyond the scope of my time right now. (Any thoughts on reconciling these numbers, or is it too time consuming and not really worth it in the big scheme of things to track down 168/31772 outliers (probably...) ?)

Another odd thing I encountered was that the GUI for Mediacenter froze for the entire three hour file transfer, but MCWS was responsive and serving files. I think this could be mistaken for a frozen program by another user, so if anyone reads this and attempts a monster RNC on linux, just be patient.

After all this I will probably take the original suggestion and redo it all on Ext4 and find a different cross-platform backup.

Thanks again for all the help and suggestions.

lepa:
Also note that [name] doesn't contain extension so with extension filename might be longer than 255 (if you take Left([name],254))

David Sydney:
I am using an NTFS drive to hold my media for the smae purpose and access from a Windows drive originally but also exported the library over to a Linux install so now I access the drive from either (not at the as same time though..). I think MacOS can read off an NTFS drive which should not any issue on size and partition number. I don't try to write in MacOS. I do have a macOS system also accessing the NTFS volume (not very often mind you) but I don't typically write to the media files from MacOS...? .....just as a point of reference.

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