Roms with a ":" in their title are changed to %3A
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I have been testing out the weekly buster 4.5.9 build on my pi 4 and noticed that any rom that has a ":" in its title is changed to "%3A". If I try to change it back to a ":" it says permission denied (via WINSCP). For example my rom used to be titled: Bonk III: Bonk's Big Adventure [U].chd. Now it says: Bonk III %3A Bonk's Big Adventure [U].chd. I know this image isnt supported yet but was just curious if anyone knew what would cause this? Im running my roms off a usb stick but not sure why that would be an issue.
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Hm, AFAIK
:isn't a valid character in a filename for FAT32/NTFS. Linux has no problems with it though. How is you stick formatted ?
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@mitu exFAT i believe. The roms were originally on my sd card and I just transferred them to a new flash drive.
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My guess is because of the exFAT filesystem, the filename has been 'corrected' during transfer, since the
:is not supported on it - and that's why you can't add the:and get permission denied.
Format the drive asext4and see if you get the same result.
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@mitu Unfortunately my home PC runs windows 10 so even if I got it formated I wouldnt be able to access it directly anymore right?
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@quicksilver Since Windows can't read
ext4partitions, yes. But you can do it just for testing, since the issue here is specifically Windows (well, exFAT). -
@mitu Yes the exFAT format is definitely the issue. Now I just need to figure out if renaming the few roms that have a
:is easiest or sticking with ext4 but only having access to it via WINSCP. Thanks for figuring it out for me.
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