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This is my personal working directory, under git control to carry it around |
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between computers on a flash drive. Now stripped of git. I am reluctant to |
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send it along, but I could send a tarball to someone who is willing to check |
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on it. It's 300M. |
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I moved ./mozilla out of the way. The problem persists. |
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I found one ampersand in a file name, and changed it. No happiness. |
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Don't know how to find a filename with a space at the end. Is there a tool |
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to find hosed filenames? |
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Thank |
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Alan Davis |
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when |
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you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... |
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So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts. |
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----Richard Feynman |
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:48, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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>> It has just happened in the last day that whenever I try to navigate to a |
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>> certain subdirectory of my home directory, in order to attach a file to an |
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>> email in gmail, firefox hangs. I have tried a few experiments, with no |
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>> success. This is also no ordinary directory---it has been under git control |
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>> for several months. |
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>> ... |
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>> I have copied the contents of the directory, without the .git control |
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>> baggage, and the same happens. |
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>> ... |
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>> Thinking the same thing was going no here, I have looked at the directory, |
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>> but superficially I have seen nothing. Except a file ".directory" left |
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>> there by dolphin. I have recently installed kde 4.3.0, and started liking |
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>> it a bit, and playing around with it. |
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>> I don't know what else to look for, or what method to use, to look for |
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>> bizaare bits in a tree. |
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>> I suppose I will copy all the files over, one at a time. Suggestions |
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>> would be appreciated. |
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> Are there any files in that directory with unusual names? |
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> Names with ümlauts or åccents in them? Names with &mpersands or sl\ash/es |
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> in them? Spaces on the end? |
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> You say the directory is under SVN - if it's a public project & you have no |
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> reason to be coy about accessing it, perhaps you can post a link to it, so |
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> that other people here can try & reproduce. |
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> Stroller. |
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