Bug Report: --whitespace and colons

[Andy Bircumshaw]

On 4 Sep 2010, at 16:00, greenwateringcan at mailhaven.com wrote:
> I'm running get_iplayer v2.78 on WinXP.
>
> When downloading a programme that has a colon in the name while using
> --whitespace, the download will fail. I'm seeing this on Natural World
> (this is the only programme I've seen with a colon in the name).
> get_iplayer shows this as "INFO: File name prefix = Natural World -
> 2010-2011: 5. Africa's Dragon Mountain b00tn4kk default".
>
> When using --whitespace, get_iplayer will show "INFO: File name  
> prefix =
> Natural World - 2010-2011: 5. Africa's Dragon Mountain b00tn4kk  
> default"
> and start to download the file. In Windows Explorer, though, the file
> shows as "Natural World - 2010-2011" (everything up to the colon)  
> with a
> file size of 0KB.
>
> When not using --whitespace, the file will download correctly, showing
> as
> "Natural_World_- 
> _2010-2011_5._Africas_Dragon_Mountain_b00tn4kk_default.mp4"
> in Windows Explorer, with no colon. It seems that using --whitespace
> causes get_iplayer to fail to write the file name correctly, as file
> names on Windows cannot contain the : character.


Are you using the --fatfilenames option?

aB.

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