• Long File Names in xfer section

    From Digital Man@1:103/705 to nolageek on Sat Oct 24 19:26:38 2020
    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: nolageek to All on Sat Oct 24 2020 03:02 pm

    I just imported a bunch of files with long filenames into a file area using a FILES.BBS. I notice that this time none of them are showing as online and the filenames are kind of messed up.

    For example - some of my directories files are behaving as I expected and are showing as on-line:

    AliensMovieScript.txt is showing as ALIENS~1.TXT

    The ones I just imported, are showing offline, and the long filenames are messed up:

    DeadMeatPodCastEpisode1.mp3 is showing as DeadMead.Pod

    I've reimported several times and it's the same thing each time,

    What OS?
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  • From nolageek@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Sat Oct 24 23:30:00 2020
    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: Digital Man to nolageek on Sat Oct 24 2020 07:26 pm

    I just imported a bunch of files with long filenames into a file area
    using a FILES.BBS. I notice that this time none of them are showing as
    The ones I just imported, are showing offline, and the long filenames
    are messed up:
    DeadMeatPodCastEpisode1.mp3 is showing as DeadMead.Pod

    What OS?

    Windows 10

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to nolageek on Sun Oct 25 12:16:00 2020
    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: nolageek to Digital Man on Sat Oct 24 2020 11:30 pm

    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: Digital Man to nolageek on Sat Oct 24 2020 07:26 pm

    I just imported a bunch of files with long filenames into a file area
    using a FILES.BBS. I notice that this time none of them are showing as
    The ones I just imported, are showing offline, and the long filenames
    are messed up:
    DeadMeatPodCastEpisode1.mp3 is showing as DeadMead.Pod

    What OS?

    Windows 10

    I don't see any recent changes (in src/sbbs3/addfiles.c) that would impact this behavior. When did it work before?
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  • From nolageek@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Tue Oct 27 00:22:50 2020
    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: Digital Man to nolageek on Sun Oct 25 2020 12:16 pm

    I just imported a bunch of files with long filenames into a file
    area using a FILES.BBS. I notice that this time none of them are
    long filenames are messed up:
    DeadMeatPodCastEpisode1.mp3 is showing as DeadMead.Pod
    What OS?
    Windows 10
    I don't see any recent changes (in src/sbbs3/addfiles.c) that would impact this behavior. When did it work before? --


    Maybe 2 weeks ago? Only other change I've made other than updating to latest build is moving my podcast transfer areas from c: to p: (which is a USB drive)

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to nolageek on Mon Oct 26 23:25:20 2020
    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: nolageek to Digital Man on Tue Oct 27 2020 12:22 am

    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: Digital Man to nolageek on Sun Oct 25 2020 12:16 pm

    I just imported a bunch of files with long filenames into a file
    area using a FILES.BBS. I notice that this time none of them are
    long filenames are messed up:
    DeadMeatPodCastEpisode1.mp3 is showing as DeadMead.Pod
    What OS?
    Windows 10
    I don't see any recent changes (in src/sbbs3/addfiles.c) that would impact this behavior. When did it work before? --


    Maybe 2 weeks ago? Only other change I've made other than updating to latest build is moving my podcast transfer areas from c: to p: (which is a USB drive)

    Maybe that's it then: a different file system used on the USB drive. I think USB drives often use exFAT while hard-disks and SSDs are usually NTFS (on Windows). exFAT does not support support short filenames:
    http://www.on-time.com/rtos-32-docs/rtfiles-32/programming-manual/exfat/benefits-of-the-file-system.htm
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  • From nolageek@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Wed Oct 28 16:58:30 2020
    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: Digital Man to nolageek on Mon Oct 26 2020 11:25 pm

    Maybe that's it then: a different file system used on the USB drive. I think USB drives often use exFAT while hard-disks and SSDs are usually NTFS (on Windows). exFAT does not support support short filenames:

    Just checked, USB drives are using NTFS as we..

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to nolageek on Wed Oct 28 16:28:09 2020
    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: nolageek to Digital Man on Wed Oct 28 2020 04:58 pm

    Re: Long File Names in xfer section
    By: Digital Man to nolageek on Mon Oct 26 2020 11:25 pm

    Maybe that's it then: a different file system used on the USB drive. I think USB drives often use exFAT while hard-disks and SSDs are usually NTFS (on Windows). exFAT does not support support short filenames:

    Just checked, USB drives are using NTFS as we..

    But if you use addfiles with the SSDs, it works as expected? It certainly sounds like a file system issue. In any case, the whole short/long filename thing is going to be addressed in a future Synchronet release. But in the mean time, you need to either use short filenames or use an OS/filesystem combo that supports the storage of both long and shortfilenames for each file (e.g. NTFS on Windows).
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