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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: park on November 13, 2006, 09:29:32 am

Title: Network storage filename suggestions?
Post by: park on November 13, 2006, 09:29:32 am: Hi,

I have recently bought and moved all of my data over to a couple of nas devices (terastation and linkstation). However, lots of my data contains japanese and sometimes other non-latin characters. I have noticed that it is impossible to delete files from the terastation if it contains non latin characters. Not sure how to delete the files, and moreover, not sure how I should name them, or if there is a tool that could do it on mass.

I'm thinking that i could give latin character based names to all the files in media center manually and then do a "rename from properties" but that is looking like a lot of work.

Any advice from other users of network based storage?

Thanks,
Bri
Title: Re: Network storage filename suggestions?
Post by: newsposter on November 13, 2006, 10:54:46 am: use a decent NAS that can deal with double-byte character sets.........
Title: Re: Network storage filename suggestions?
Post by: maxxsid on December 19, 2006, 01:29:53 pm: Any suggestions on this?
I just tried D-link DNS-323 and bumped into the same ptoblem.

Quote from: newsposter on November 13, 2006, 10:54:46 am
use a decent NAS that can deal with double-byte character sets.........
Title: Re: Network storage filename suggestions?
Post by: JimH on December 19, 2006, 01:38:03 pm: Did you check the supplier of the drive?

If I recall correctly, this may be a Samba bug that was fixed.
Title: Re: Network storage filename suggestions?
Post by: maxxsid on December 20, 2006, 03:09:11 pm: I did check. It's a new product and I guess their firmware is not mature enough. They just release a new version of firmware (1.02) which fixed SOME issues but introduced other. For example - it removes SOME capitalized characters from the filename. I red about other NAS units (buffalo, infrant) a little and found that most of them have similar issues with foreign/accented characters..
I just sold my home built raid server which was working perfectly (Win XP) hoping to save some floor space with a brand name nas... gotta build a new one..

Quote from: JimH on December 19, 2006, 01:38:03 pm
Did you check the supplier of the drive?

If I recall correctly, this may be a Samba bug that was fixed.
Title: Re: Network storage filename suggestions?
Post by: park on January 05, 2007, 12:49:30 am: I'm still struggling with this problem.

A mac on the same network, running itunes, will automatically name files to be just a bunch of single underscores, when copying files onto the network drive.

Could MC do something like this? I'd rather have useless filenames than files that cant be accessed or deleted.
Title: Re: Network storage filename suggestions?
Post by: park on February 21, 2007, 07:53:58 pm: Still struggling with this one. Searched the net some more and someone else seems to think that it isnt a problem for people who have a japanese OS installed. It's only a problem for people who use a western WinXP with Japanese language support installed. He seemed to think it might be related to samba. I have seen hacked firmware for the terastation that contains NFS. Could someone, more knowledgeable than myself about networking, let me know, before I start backing up 1tb of data and trying hacked firmwares, whether NFS might make a difference in handling double byte character files.

Thanks a lot,
Bri
Title: Re: Network storage filename suggestions?
Post by: newsposter on February 22, 2007, 12:21:10 am: Depends on what version of NFS. NFS v3 with recent patches handles double-byte locales just fine.