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1)get an OS that supports spaces in filenames 2)OR use quote to delimit file name e.g. "file name.ext" https://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/refman1/auxillar/filequot.htm HTH Martin ______________________________________________ ________________________________ From: Mark Trolley <marktrol...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2018 11:30 AM To: Martin Gainty Subject: Re: [exec] Executed command can't open file argument You're absolutely right in that it was the spaces in the filename. If I rename the file without spaces it works correctly. By the way I am running this on a Mac, though I didn't think that would make any difference. Is there any workaround other than renaming the file to get it to handle spaces in the name? I need them formatted that way because I parse the name to detect the show name, season number, and episode number to look up metadata. On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com<mailto:mgai...@hotmail.com>> wrote: MG>please see below MG>some file systems cannot read either long filenames or filenames with spaces MG>what happens if you shorten up testing_mp4 to TESTIN~1 and shorten Futurama - S05E01.mp4 to Futurama.mp4 ? MG>check acl/cacls permissions MG>for the user that you use to run AtomicParsley has permissions to read MG>/Users/mtrolley/testing_mp4/Futurama - S05E01.mp4 ? Thanks in advance for any help.
