On 16-09-20 08:27 PM, Bruce wrote:
Sample of what I'm trying to copy: cp /tmp/Herbert\ Von\ Karajan\ -\ 01\ -\ BEETHOVEN\ \:\ Symphony\ No.6\ in\ F\ major\,\ Op.68\ \"Pastoral\"\ -\ 1.\ Allegro\ ma\ non\ troppo.flac /mnt/usbstick/Music I thought maybe the title was too long so I also renamed some of the offending file, but got the some result. I tried copying them to a different hard drive and that worked fine.
Micro SD cards use good old FAT 32 file systems. and the list of special characters for those is large. I found I had to get a list of the failures and start sanitising the file names to go the list to copy
the : character is surely one as it is not part of "X:" -- Charles MacDonald Stittsville Ontario cmacd [ at ] zeusprune [ dot ] ca Just Beyond the Fringe No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail.