Hi all:
I’ve been using Seafile successfully and without any problems for approx. 2 years, basically to sync documents and other data across 3 MacOS devices an iPhone and iPad.
Now I’ve added a Windows computer into the mix, and was hoping for seamless integration but that’s not the case.
When trying to sync all of my important libraries on the Windows computer, I get the following errors for a number of my files:
excerpt from /ccnet/logs/seafile
[08/17/17 13:56:06] repo-mgr.c(5241): Path Stationary /Envelope /Only Letterhead Logo (new).tiff is invalid on Windows, skip checkout
[08/17/17 13:56:06] repo-mgr.c(5241): Path Stationary /Envelope /Only Letterhead Logo (new).pdf is invalid on Windows, skip checkout
[08/17/17 13:56:06] repo-mgr.c(5241): Path Stationary /Envelope /Only Letterhead Logo (new).docx is invalid on Windows, skip checkout
[08/17/17 13:56:06] repo-mgr.c(5241): Path Stationary /Envelope /Envelope11.docx is invalid on Windows, skip checkout
[08/17/17 13:56:06] repo-mgr.c(5241): Path Stationary /Envelope /Envelope Logo .pdf is invalid on Windows, skip checkout
[08/17/17 13:56:06] repo-mgr.c(5241): Path Stationary /Envelope /Envelope Logo .jpg is invalid on Windows, skip checkout
The list gets much more extensive, this is just a small sample.
I understand that the issue is with supported character and spacing in paths and directories on MacOS viz-a-viz Windows. Frankly I don’t know why there are so many files and dirs. that have an extra space in them on my MacOS devices… certainly wasn’t done intentionally.
My question is this: What is the best way to resolve this issue? I was going to try running some stuff on my MacOS devices through a program called “A Better Finder Rename 10” which supposedly would fix the issues, although I don’t think it deals with whitespace in directory names and only would fix filenames. Plus, when I ran a small sample of my data that I know didn’t sync correctly with Seafile, it tells me that “0 of X items need renaming” – not the solution I’m in need of.
My understanding also is that this issue is not with NTFS but with Windows itself, so even if I store my seafile data on a different partition type, this won’t help – if that’s incorrect please let me know.
Has anybody dealt with this issue successfully? What did you do?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated, thank you.