On Dec 29, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to move a file from my main drive to my external HD,
both of which are
"Mac OS Extended (Jornaled)" but it is failing. The file name is 51
characters long:
5 - Oxygene XII - Concert Theatre Marigny 2007.mp4
But when I copy from the Finder I am told the name is too long for
the destination.
If I try with the cp command
mv /5\ -\ Oxygene\ XII\ -\ Concert\ Theatre\ Marigny\ 2007.mp4 .
I get:
mv: ./5 - Oxygene XII - Concert Theatre Marigny 2007.mp4: Invalid
argument
What I don't understand is that the file name limit is meant to be
255 characters
and the file is already present on a disk of the same type.
Any ideas?
My guess is that this is not the actual name of the file. Since
`touch` works with the above string to create a new file by that
name I suspect that a `ls /5\ -\ Oxygene\ XII\ -\ Concert\ Theatre\
Marigny\ 2007.mp4` will return that the file does not exist. If this
is the case it's possible that there is some hidden character in the
actual file name.
Another thing to try would be to cd to / and try w/o the leading /
in the file name. Likewise try using ./ as the target.
