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Old 28th September 2019
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Originally Posted by sacerdos_daemonis View Post
one directory is still a problem:
Code:
File doesn't exist, or I can't access it: /home/bocere/USB/academic/China/history/1-Ancient_China:Studies_in_Early_Civilisation
Again, a directory with an English title containing photographs.
In this case the problem has nothing to do with encoding.

This is while copying from your computer to the external device, right? That's because the colon (":") is a valid filename character for UFS2 but invalid on FAT and NTFS (outside POSIX namespace) since Windows uses it to separate the drive letter from the rest of the path.

Personally, no matter the filesystem I usually automatically replace the colon with " - " (space hyphen space). IMHO it's always better, both technically and aesthetically.
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