On Tuesday 14 March 2006 15:10, Tim wrote: > > That would matter for the character encoding of the file content, what > I'm referring to, and you're having problems with, is the file names. > It's a separate issue, but both can cause you problems. File names need > to be what they're expected to be, and the content in a format that can > be read. Some things can assess a file and deal with that themselves, > others will expect the files to already be in a specific format. > Perhaps you could explain this to me? When I first found a photo with a name that had contained one of those characters I deleted the apparent spaces and put a normal e in their place, but when k3b read it it knew that there should have been an accented e in there. > Now after changing file names *for* the backup, what happens when you > restore them? Do you end up with two similarly named files? Or will > your backup directly replace the original? > I try to get to this, this evening and report back. Remember, though, that I simply burned the files to disk. It was not a 'proper' backup, i.e. not a tarred collection to be restored. Anne
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