Marking this bug as confirmed because it happens to multiple users.
** Package changed: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) => firefox (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242426
Title:
Ark hangs when file/directory name on NTFS contains a colon
Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “kdeutils” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
What I did:
- I installed Kubuntu 8.04 (I always update when Adept_updater suggests it)
in parallel with WinXPSP2, which is installed on NTFS partitions.
- I used Firefox to save some webpages directly on a NTFS partition. These
webpages had colons (":") in their title so FF used that as file/directory
names. I justed clicked on "save".
- I right-clicked the directory where I saved all these files an chose
compress to ZIP.
- The Ark status windows comes. It seems like it is proceeding (the rectangle
in the bar goes from the left to the right and back all the time) but the
hard-drive doesn't do anything.
In Windows, 7zip says that it can't open that directories. However, I
can see them in the Windows Explorer but I can't rename them there. I
have to do that in Kubuntu. When I have removed the colons there by
renaming, everything works as it should.
As far as I know, NTFS internally uses a colon to seperate the
(hidden) ADS part from the rest of the filename.
I know that Linux and MS are completely different worlds, but in my opionion
as user:
- NTFS-3G shouldn't allow colons in filenames.
- Applications like Firefox shouldn't suggest names with colons (or should
have at least an option in the settings to change that)
- Ark should abort trying to open these files and notify me.
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