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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 25 for Linux => Topic started by: BryanC on September 18, 2019, 04:06:44 pm

Title: Filenames with weird characters are refusing to sync to FAT32 drive [Solved]
Post by: BryanC on September 18, 2019, 04:06:44 pm

When I try to sync files with strange characters in the name to my FAT32 Sansa Clip Sport Plus, they refuse to sync.

Other files without strange characters sync fine. See picture for examples of characters (all of the tracks in the image will fail to sync):

(https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1U7iREiG85Gqan63EuMLl-orH-nM7Rdds)

I am using Clean() in my filename expression:

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Rand(100,999,1)clean([Artist] - [Name],3)(The Rand stuff is to workaround the absolutely arcane Sansa Clip firmware limitations on their recent devices)

When I sync the same files to an ext4 device, they sync fine.

Here is a little info from stackexchange on an rsync or shell script workaround: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/70785/rsyncing-files-with-special-characters-to-usb-fat32/70817
I'm not sure which transfer protocol MC uses.

Logs sent.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Filenames with weird characters are refusing to sync to FAT32 drive [Solved]
Post by: BryanC on September 18, 2019, 06:47:07 pm

I solved this by adding the iocharset=utf8 option to the fstab mount directives for my device.

Title: Re: Filenames with weird characters are refusing to sync to FAT32 drive [Solved]
Post by: JimH on September 18, 2019, 07:00:08 pm

Well done, and thanks for letting us know.