Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

2023-01-05 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi, I just wanted to copy a bunch of files containing various characters like '?' and ':' in their names to an NTFS drive with dolphin, and got lots of errors because of that names. Dolphin does not remove those characters (or offer to do so), the only option you have is abort. Of course, one

Re: Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

2023-01-05 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Thursday January 05 2023 09:29:43 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: >Hi, > >I just wanted to copy a bunch of files containing various characters like '?' >and ':' in their names to an NTFS drive with dolphin, and got lots of errors >because of that names. Dolphin does not remove those characters (or o

Re: Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

2023-01-05 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Donnerstag, 5. Jänner 2023, 12:38:50 CET schrieb René J.V. Bertin: > On Thursday January 05 2023 09:29:43 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I just wanted to copy a bunch of files containing various characters like > >'?' and ':' in their names to an NTFS drive with dolphin, and got lots of

Re: Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

2023-01-05 Thread clarjon1
Having just an automated autoreplace could result in poor results, esp if not explained to the user... I wonder if functionality could be done to check what the destination filesystem is,and a quick scan of the file names to look for incompatible characters, then provide a dialog with functionalit

Re: Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

2023-01-05 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Thursday January 05 2023 14:18:19 clarjon1 wrote: >Having just an automated autoreplace could result in poor results, esp >if not explained to the user... +++ >"Some files contain characters not allowed by the destination file >system (FilesystemTypeHere) and cannot be copied as-is. Manually

Re: Dolphin replace/remove invalid chars in filename when copying to NTFS?

2023-01-05 Thread J Leslie Turriff
On 2023-01-05 07:05:53 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. Jänner 2023, 12:38:50 CET schrieb René J.V. Bertin: > > On Thursday January 05 2023 09:29:43 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I just wanted to copy a bunch of files containing various characters > > > like '?' and ':'