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bmarkus:
Screenshot saves pictures with filename like screenshot_06.18_09:32:22.png This is not a valid DOS file name, therefore such a file can't be copied to the FAT partition on the USB drive to use it on a WINDOWS machine for publication.


Regards... Béla

alu:
if i rename the file, i can save it on my fat usb stick

curaga:
Philosophical question: why should we give a heck about dos/windows file names?

In practise it's easy to copy with a different filename if needed, as alu said.

bmarkus:

--- Quote from: curaga on June 18, 2009, 06:10:20 AM ---Philosophical question: why should we give a heck about dos/windows file names?

In practise it's easy to copy with a different filename if needed, as alu said.

--- End quote ---

Hm... The most generic way to run TC from USB stick with FAT filesystem, or to use a FAT formatted stick to move files from TC to WIN (ok, there are many other ways are know). So DOS file names are used by TC. If the captured file name can be changed in the system why not? I can rename them for sure, but it is an unnecessary overhead.

Of course one can say forget DOS emotionally, but it is not practical and not user friendly approach. You can spend 10 minutes to change the format and save 100 minutes for the community  :D

BTW, show me any other application in TC creating file names with ':'

Anyhow, it is not so important, but for me it is still remains a bug.

Regards

Béla

mikshaw:
I agree with both of you.  I don't think a Linux system should be too concerned about DOS filenames when it comes to the ancient 8.3 naming scheme, but I believe that some characters simply shouldn't be part of a filename due to their potential to cause trouble with applications that make special use of those characters.

Although technically the only character you can't use is slash, I think space, semicolon, asterisk, exclamation, question, percent....blah blah, blah, all should be avoided in my opinion.  The only non-alpha-numeric characters I use are underscore, hyphen, and dot (though I have some older files including brackets....haven't had issue with them yet).

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