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fix path which was broken due to accent characters

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Awesome Donkey:
It's those special accented characters doing it, to workaround it you'd have to change the file/folder names by renaming the files/folders containing those characters and replace them with "normal characters" to avoid this. Metadata display of special characters within MC should be completely fine as-is though, it's just the filenames/folders that would need renamed. All accented characters won't do this, others should display fine. The ones that don't display correctly are the files/folders that should be renamed to avoid this. This is what I do in my cross platform library to avoid oddities like this and get it to work perfectly between Windows and Linux.

P.S. Also avoid having files/folders that begin with a period, as Linux (and macOS) treats those as hidden files and they won't import correctly in MC.

EricaLina:
This did work at one time.  If things have changed I am unaware of them.

obviously something did.

so trying to use the rename tool. it
correctly identifies the change, but doesnt change anything. If I edit the path manually in the action pane it looks odd. a weird character after the i.  but thats the only place I can see it.

I can manually fix it by replacing them with í.

I will try changing everything to a regular i.  they are everywhere. not just the paths. also the file names.  This is not good.

It really has been working for more than a decade for me.

EricaLina:
Just found another weird one.

the path has double quotes in it that have been converted to underscores.

I cannot even edit that one to fix it.  Its a 5 star file, that has been played.
But it can no longer be found.  It still lives where it always has.

Awesome Donkey:
You may need to rename those files/folders outside of Media Center using the Linux OS' file manager (or using Windows and renaming everything there using File Explorer). Regardless, you're going to have to avoid using certain characters in folder names and filenames when using Linux (and Mac), or else you'll run into these and other issues. Like you'll probably need to change í to i in the file manager, for example. It only matters for the folder names and filenames, it won't affect metadata in MC.

Some info here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/155793/is-it-correct-to-use-certain-special-characters-when-naming-filenames-in-linux

BryanC:
I always pass everything through a Clean() expression when using RM&C on Linux.

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