Could have been created fine (without *) but a disk write error sometime in the past 40 years may have changed it. Disk media itself has no idea about special characters. Only file systems do.
On November 29, 2020 9:55:36 AM HST, Abrimaal <[email protected]> wrote: > It was strange that Windows (or any other system) allowed to use "*" > in a > folder name. Even if the folder was imported from a 1980s computer ;) > Well, work with a computer is not writing poetry. > The best to use only the standarized 26 letters and digits. We really > do > not need any other characters than a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and separators - _ Need for those depends on the user's language, friend. If my user name was Kümmel, the ü is needed. ;) > Do not use C:\Users for any important files, such as program > configuration > settings. > The user folder is a system workspace, where everything can be > modified, > overwritten or deleted by Windows. > Much better to save program configurations in the program main folder. > > This way we can use more than one instances of the same program, each > of > them configured for different tasks. > > > > On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 3:13:28 PM UTC+1 [email protected] > wrote: > > > Thank you Gunter, yes i figured it out, the folder name had an '*' , > > > removed it and i was able to import them. > > > > Problem solved, i am trying to change the subject line. > > > > Regards, > > Anoop > > On Saturday, 28 November, 2020 at 7:14:20 pm UTC+5:30 > > [email protected] wrote: > > > >> If you are using windows you might be in that weird situation that > you > >> don't see non-ascii characters in the path to your files: > "Documents" for > >> example is shorthand for "C:\users\(your username)\(the translation > of " > >> documents" into your system language). > >> Also the temp directory temporary files are stored in might be in a > > >> similar path - even if that pathname is never shown. > >> > >> Might that be the case, this time? > >> > >> Kind regards, > >> > >> Gunter. > >> > >> > >> On November 28, 2020 1:03:49 PM GMT+01:00, Anoop Bhaskar < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Greetings all, > >>> > >>> I am really new with Hugin. > >>> > >>> I want to stitch 26 images to form a 360 panorama or an > equirectangular > >>> image, but i am not able to load the images as it is not able to > decode. > >>> > >>> When googled it said that it might be because of non latin > characters, > >>> but all the files are in latin script. > >>> > >>> The images are from DJI, i have edited them on lightroom and > converted > >>> them to jpg. > >>> > >>> Has anyone faced a similar issue? > >>> > >>> Thank you, > >>> Anoop -- David W. Jones [email protected] wandering the landscape of god http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with F/LOSS K-9 Mail. -- A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/E984F5CC-A25D-4C7A-9EC7-82762825F785%40gmail.com.
