On Friday 24 November 2006 20:21, Peter Vollebregt wrote:
> Ian schreef:
> > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 22:45, Peter Vollebregt wrote:
> >>> Sir Robin
> >>>
> >>> On 20/11/06, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> On Sunday 19 November 2006 21:29, Miark wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:41:58 +0000, Ian wrote:
> >>>>>> Before upgrading to 2007, I could copy files between
> >>>>>> partitions easily. Now, if the folder I am copying is
> >>>>>> uppercase, the files within don't get copied and give a "can't
> >>>>>> write to" error. Does anyone know what has changed, and what
> >>>>>> do I need to do to get back to how it used to work? I have
> >>>>>> noticed that the folder will be lower case when copied ,
> >>>>>> regardless of case of the original. --
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Are you dealing with a FAT or NTFS filesystem?
> >>>>
> >>>> It's a FAT32 partition. The error only happens with nested
> >>>> directories. If I get the error, I enter the remote folder and can
> >>>> copy the files to it.
> >>>> The fault appears to be linked to the case of the folder . Hope that
> >>>> makes
> >>>> sense.
> >>
> >> Robin Turner schreef:
> >>> I don't have an answer but a related problem that might shed some
> >>> light: when I copied a directory tree from /home to /mnt/win, all file
> >>> names were converted to uppercase. Again, this is FAT32, not NTFS.
> >>
> >> What are the settings for this partition in /etc/fstab?
> >>
> >> What you can do is t try to add the 'shortname=mixed' option to the
> >> mount options because this enables linux to use lower- and uppercase.
> >> As in:
> >> /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat umask=0,utf8=true,noatime,shortname=mixed 0 0
> >>
> >> (Based on history i adopted the SuSE mountpoint /windows/C instead of
> >> /mnt/......)
> >
> > Sorry, I appear to have a drive going pear shaped (hdb), so I'm
> > transferring files to dvd at present.
> > The behaviour was when copying from /home to /win_c2 .Both are on the hdb
> > drive.
> > FSTAB =
> >
> >
> > /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,exec 0 0
> > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,exec 0 0
>
> Question is how did you copy. Although i like konqueror very much i had
> a bad experience with copying and errors like you describe. That is how
> i found out the shortname=mixed option.
>
> Try to copy via 'cp' or use 'mc' (midnight commander) if you want to use
> a graphical method that is different than konqueror.
>
> You can also change fstab and change the mount options (and remount).
> Maybe also the utf8 sequence makes it go wrong. I have had trouble
> elsewhere with character conversions.
Tried it via mc which completed the copy but gave chmod errors. also tried
Krusader which copied as well but gave errors.
I just downloaded the updates (the dbus libs) and the problem has
vanished.......
>From the update notice: D-Bus is a system for sending messages between
applications. It is used both for the systemwide message bus service, and as
a per-user-login-session messaging facility.
Could this have been the cause?
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