it is the point that jim mentioned that is the root cause of the
problem, while there is the colon in the file name you are stuffed in
windows.
as you may well be with any of / \ | ? * < > and " (the other invalid
characters for a windows file name)
i was somewhat surprised to find that i can use ANY of the above
characters to rename an mp3 file (or folder containing) quite happily in
konqueror, it remains playable, and while it produces some random file
name on a windows box ( except when trying / - for which is substituted
a %2f ) the extension is retained, it is playable and can be deleted
from windows too. ext3 drive, not ntfs - still interesting. [i don't
get out enough]
Cheers,
Roger
Kerry Mayes wrote:
None of these ideas are working from the linux box connecting the
drive as a samba share. (And nothing worked from windows direct).
I'll try taking it off the windows machine and connecting it directly
to linux.
K
