By the way - The filename in the upload directory was 194 characters --- it's entirely possible that windows was having trouble with this.
Here is the listing of my test uploads directory (the first was just a 'normal' length file): -rw-r--r-- 1 yarko staff 2642 Jun 24 17:33 test.file. 880c7c46ee30a1ad.696e6465782e68746d6c.html -rw-r--r-- 1 yarko staff 16624 Jun 24 17:40 test.file. 96aded454eba1b88.5468652050726963696e67206f66204f7074696f6e7320616e6420436f72706f72617465204c696162696c69746965735f4a6f75726e616c206f6620506f6c69746963616c2045636f6e6f6d792e6a7067.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 yarko staff 16624 Jun 24 17:45 test.file.a500ba489526de41.5468652050726963696e67206f66204f7074696f6e7320616e6420436f72706f72617465204c696162696c69746965735f4a6f75726e616c206f6620506f6c69746963616c2045636f6e6f6d792e6a7067.jpg Here's the paths to the links from web2py db admin (as you can see - all the paths are correctly formed): http://localhost:8000/test/appadmin/download/db/test.file.880c7c46ee30a1ad.696e6465782e68746d6c.html http://localhost:8000/test/appadmin/download/db/test.file.96aded454eba1b88.5468652050726963696e67206f66204f7074696f6e7320616e6420436f72706f72617465204c696162696c69746965735f4a6f75726e616c206f6620506f6c69746963616c2045636f6e6f6d792e6a7067.jpg http://localhost:8000/test/appadmin/download/db/test.file.a500ba489526de41.5468652050726963696e67206f66204f7074696f6e7320616e6420436f72706f72617465204c696162696c69746965735f4a6f75726e616c206f6620506f6c69746963616c2045636f6e6f6d792e6a7067.jpg Regards, - Yarko On Jun 23, 3:15 am, Swell <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok > I will post some code here to show as much as possible > > here is the db definition: > > db.define_table('papers', > Field('title','string'), > Field('author','string'), > Field('file','upload'), > ) > > then if i try to use the database administration tool available in > Models section and try to insert a file like > "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities_Journal of Political > Economy.pdf" i then get a ticket complaining about > > IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > C:\\Users\\M\\Desktop\\web2py_src\\web2py\\applications\\Library/ > databases\\..\\uploads\ > \papers.file.a33b16f5af29f6d8.5468652050726963696e67206f66204f7074696f6e7320616e6420436f72706f72617465204c696162696c69746965735f4a6f75726e616c206f6620506f6c69746963616c2045636f6e6f6d792e706466.pdf' > > i also checked the file actually has never been properly uploaded ( it > is not present in the upload directory). Nothing special about size of > the file ( if i just change manually the filename it works ). So it > seems that the bug is when we receiving the file . > > hope we can sort this out > Thx all > M
