Ian schreef: > 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? > >From a black-box perspective: provbably, because by changing this (and nothing else?) it suddenly works. And DBUS is involved in recognizing hardware and mounting, so it touches your problem. But i have a ot to learn about those things.
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