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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0018216 | MMW 5 | Tagging / organizing (properties / auto-tools) | public | 2021-08-23 12:51 | 2023-04-21 15:21 |
| Reporter | peke | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 5.0 | ||||
| Target Version | 5.0.2 | Fixed in Version | 5.0.2 | ||
| Summary | 0018216: Auto-Tools: Add option to prevent "." to be first character on folder/filename | ||||
| Description | We should add option to prevent "." to be first character on folder/filename as it messes Linux file system. https://www.tecmint.com/manage-linux-filenames-with-special-characters/ Workaround currently is to add "2E=" line in INI file, but that affect whole filename not just first character. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 2509 | ||||
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Is there a reason why to have option for that ? I think we can automatically prevent to have "." as first character or do you think of any situation why user want dot at a first character ? |
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Peke, have we run into situations in which this caused problems? Re. Petr's question: I think it's reasonable to not allow a file/folder to start with '.' unless the user explicitly specifies a path/foldername that begins with a '.'. BUT, I wonder if this could be a risky change at this time as it might affect sync file matching? |
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Yes, it is actually easy to replicate, but due the limited number of Album, Artist, Title names it is rare occurrence. On Other side Audio Books and Podcasts commonly have "... The next chapter" in names and when these are synced to Devices that are linux based files/folders are hidden. To simulate that Sync One Album/Track to phone that have . as first character. Same goes for NAS and Some cloud services also had same issue (there was one user while back where we found in Remote session that all folders he copied with . as first character . were not seen and space on Cloud was lost. Think it was S3) It is rare case, but I suspect it will also influence MAC version of MM and it is easy fix. Re pairing, it should not influence that as it prefers tag+length+filesize, rather than filename (tracks can be copied with windows explorer, but they still gets paired) |
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OK. Leaving for Petr to triage. |
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Fixed |
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Verified 2509 On test . can't be first character in Auto-Organize not in Sync destination mask. |
