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Offline Rockmenot

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Copy/(r)sync over lots of files with FAT32-illegal characters
« on: December 28, 2007, 07:58:45 PM »
Many of my song and album titles contain characters like *, <> and ?, which are illegal in FAT32 filenames. This makes copying my music collection to the Rockbox device a pain. The Rockbox FAQ says it will never support other file systems, but is there any way to copy over huge amounts of data while somehow correcting/replacing illegal characters on the destination files, and possibly even using rsync or something similiar? As you might already have guessed, I'm using GNU/Linux.
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Offline bluebrother

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Re: Copy/(r)sync over lots of files with FAT32-illegal characters
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2007, 07:28:04 AM »
amarok has an option "FAT save filenames" (or something similar) when copying / moving files. If you use KDE you might give it a look.
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Re: Copy/(r)sync over lots of files with FAT32-illegal characters
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2007, 07:37:13 AM »
You could use Detox http://detox.sourceforge.net/. It has nice options to clean up filenames.
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