Adding folder with ‘ in the name

[dreamer]

On dapper svn-1463:

I still have a folder on NTFS called /MP3’s/ I’m having trouble adding this folder (probably due to the ‘ ). Does anybody know how I can fix this?

I’m hoping to get a new disk soon, so I can change the name of this folder in ext3.

[CCRDude]

In German, we call this Deppenapostroph since many use this ‘ for building the plural.

Guess in English it’s getting incorrect more and more as well… so why don’t you jsut rename the folder to its correct form MP3s? 😆 (or is there any special reason you can’t rename it currently? If it’s just about NTFS, some kind of live CD with NTFS writing enabled (or even a BartPE CD) may suffice if its just that you don’t have any Windows installed currently).

(and yes, I’m allowed to make fun of it, I’m not really better since I made the same mistake when creating the smart playlist wizard 😉 )

[fizze]

Also, you have to know about the infamous Deppen Leerzeichen 😀

Normally in UNIX ‘special’ characters are handled with a preceding (backslash) character. this is the escape character, and the character after this is not treated ‘special’.

In UNIX in most shells the ‘ character includes a command that is executed by the shell, and its output is being inserted in the current expression.

most famous is prolly something like:

apt-get install gcc_'uname'*

[rpedde]

@dreamer wrote:

On dapper svn-1463:

I still have a folder on NTFS called /MP3’s/ I’m having trouble adding this folder (probably due to the ‘ ). Does anybody know how I can fix this?

I’m hoping to get a new disk soon, so I can change the name of this folder in ext3.

Ugh. Can you mount it utf-8? Or make your mp3 dir a folder up?

[dreamer]

I can’t ‘make’ anything of it. The folder resides on an ntfs-disk and I can’t change anything about it (or else risking corrupting everything).

But, I’ll keep everything on hold for a couple more weeks when I get my new disks (holliday madness huh)

[rpedde]

@dreamer wrote:

I can’t ‘make’ anything of it. The folder resides on an ntfs-disk and I can’t change anything about it (or else risking corrupting everything).

But, I’ll keep everything on hold for a couple more weeks when I get my new disks (holliday madness huh)

Yeah, I got that. But can you set your mp3_dir to a folder just above that.

Like rather than /mnt/ntfs/MP3’s, use /mnt/ntfs?

[dreamer]

^ oh yeah, I tried that, didn’t work. I get a “Error: 500general:mp3_dir”

[dreamer]

btw, the dir is

/media/hda3/Muziek/MP3’s/

or

/media/hda3/Muziek/ which gives the 500 error.

[dreamer]

ok, I now changed permissions on /media/ and it will accept the folder in the config, but when I scan for files I get:

$ sudo mt-daapd -f start

Firefly Version svn-1463: Starting with debuglevel 2

Starting rendezvous daemon

Starting signal handler

Initializing database

Signal handler started

Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689

Registering rendezvous names

Serving 82 songs.  Startup complete in 0 seconds

Rescanning database

Rendezvous socket closed (daap server crashed?) Aborting.

Aborting

Segmentation fault

[fizze]

ok, can you set the debuglevel to 9 ?
This will give a real verbosive log output 😉

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