On Wed, 15 Aug 2018, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 08:49:50PM +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
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All these files have names as:
Albinoni, Tomaso - 01 - Concerto No. 1 for Violin in B flat major, Op. 9%2F1:
- Allegro.ogg
And konqueror does not manage to copy them.
How are you trying to copy them? What steps do you take and what happens when you try it?
Under Linux, I see no reason why you can't copy that file. I created a test file like this in the shell (bash):
touch "Albinoni concerto%2F1:1. Allegro.ogg"
opened my home directory in Konquorer, single-clicked on the file, typed Ctrl-C to copy, moved to another directory and typed Ctrl-V to paste, and the file copied fine. Unless there's a bug in your version of Konq which mine doesn't have, it should be able to deal with file names containing spaces, colons and percent signs easily.
The way I use konqueror as a file manager is by using split screen: with one directory in the left pane, and the other directory in the right pane. It's simple drag-n-drop after that. What makes it so very, VERY convenient is konqueror's sftp:// ability. I develop web pages locally and upload them to the live web site via konqueror.
Of course there is so much more you can do. Right click on a file and open in another tab. Right click and open in kwrite. Etc., usw.
I have NEVER had problems processing "weird named files" in konqueror. (Tho', myself, I eschew such abominations....)
HTH, Jonesy