Re: tramp/ange-ftp: error in creation of dir's

[Michael Albinus]

Martin Steffen <msteffen@ifi.uio.no> writes:

>     Michael> No surprise. Internally, a complete different machinery is
>     Michael> working for you. And which problems with long file names are
>     Michael> you running into?
>
> Well, the problems are that it abbreviates the file-names. 
> So, concretely.
>
> I wanted to copy a whole batch of files, all with similar file names
> (photos, whose file names carry the date-hour-minutes etc which makes the
> file names long), So I marked all of them in dired, copied all of them over
> the net in a batch to the file-server, using "smb" as protocol. But that
> breaks, as some of the files in the target system get the same file-name
> via abbreviation, which results in name clash and the copy-batch stops at
> that point.

Is this the SMB server which abbreviates the filenames? Or is it
because of Tramp, which cannot handle such filenames (maybe containing
spaces, or so)?

> Cheers, and thanks, Martin

Best regards, Michael.