[Bug 12294] New: nautilus gives perplexing error message while copying some files to vfat

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Ubuntu | nautilus

           Summary: nautilus gives perplexing error message while copying
                    some files to vfat
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: nautilus
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: desrt at desrt.ca
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


I was trying to copy a file with a '?' in the filename to my vorbis player which
is a USB device (nicely automounted by Ubuntu) with a VFAT filesystem on it.

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         Error While Copying
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  Error "Invalid parameters" while
  copying "/home/desrt...iou.ogg".

  Would you like to continue?

       [ Skip ] [ Cancel ] [ Retry ]
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This error message confuses me an awful lot.  As far as I know, I'm performing a
valid operation to a device that has enough free space.  I don't know that VFAT
doesn't support certain characters and this error message doesn't make that fact
any more obvious to me.  The only-slightly-guessable filename isn't even the one
that had the '?' in it (and in fact, the shown filename was transfered
successfully!).

More to the point: it should 'just work'.  Something (nautilus, kernel) should
just change the ? to a _ or remove it entirely.

I tried adding 'check=relaxed' to the mount options (which the mount manpage
seems to suggest might help) but it had no effect.

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