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I’m trying to copy a large number of oggs from my HD to two vfat-formatted SDHC cards in my N800, mounted over USB. (16G worth of files, to be exact.) As far as I can tell, copying files with : in them (e.g., about 10% of my ogg files) to the target drive causes cp and nautilus to choke. I’m guessing this is vfat’s fault, but the N800 doesn’t seem to like it when I format the cards as ext2.
So… anyone have any suggestions on how to either rename the files (lots of them) temporarily in such a way as to make them copiable, or otherwise work around vfat, or (maybe ideally) how to use a more modern fs altogether on sd cards that will be used only in the n800? Pointers ASAP much appreciated as I leave for NC on Sunday and would like to have my oggs on the n800 by then :)
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try this:
a batch file containing:
mv $1 `echo $1 | tr “:” “-”`
save as ‘uncolon’.
and then:
find . -name “*:*”
to check you’re only finding the files you’re after. finally
find . -name “*:*” -exec uncolon {} \;
nasty.
:-)
qmv is a neat tool for editing all the filenames in a directory with your favorite editor.
The music management program quodlibet has a rename by tag feature that you could use to rename all your music files into any other format like //.ogg (This example would remove song titles from the oggs.) It also has a checkbox that strips non-Windows compatible characters in filenames.
Looks like the blog automatically strips anything that looks like html tags.
Originally //.ogg had artist, album, and tracknumber inside greater than and less than signs. So if I try it again using html escapes it should be:
<artist>/<album>/<tracknumber>.ogg
find -depth -name ‘*:*’ -exec rename -n ‘y/:/_/’ {} +
(adjust -n and replacement for flavor)
…temporarily? cp -lr into a temp tree first I guess.
*cough* :\ (test before you post, grasshopper) …should have -execdir rather than -exec there, so renaming dirs on the way works out the first time, too.
rsync is ported on the N800, you also have to install openssh, you’ll get 500kbyte/s over wifi. You can restart as many times as you want
Otherwise I would just partition the card with one small FAT and one big ext3 FS, I’ve never done it but some report it works.
Easytag can move and rename MP3s based on artist/album/track/etc. It’s in the Ubuntu universe repo.
This is a problem i have dealt with, so far i have found (2) reasons this is caused.
Reasons:
———-
(1). Any directory you copy with a space at the end to a fat drive fails — so the folder “folder1 ” will fail.
(2). Any folder/file with the same name in same directory but diff caps will fail to fat. e.g. “folder1″ & “Folder1″ will fail to copy.
Look for these files using some python/bash magic and rename them & your cp should go fine.
I learned this the hard way deleteing most of my GF’s info (before formatting) thinking it copied fine in terminal b/c cp doesn’t report any errors.
This could be this very annoying bug that probably affects anybody copying their music to audio players:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309584
It seems fairly easy to fix if someone has the time.
Murray: yeah, that is it.
I’ll take a look at quodlibet and google more aggressively for maemo and ext3, I guess.
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