site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 29-Dec-07, at 17:56 , Dan Shoop wrote: On Dec 29, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote: Hi, 5 - Oxygene XII - Concert Theatre Marigny 2007.mp4 mv /5\ -\ Oxygene\ XII\ -\ Concert\ Theatre\ Marigny\ 2007.mp4 . I get: Any ideas? Andre _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... 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: 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: 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. 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. A touch wasn't working either and trying to touch something shorter didn't work either. I ended up unmounting the drive an remounting it. This seems to have sorted the issue. Not sure what happened. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com