Bug Report: --whitespace and colons

[greenwateringcan at mailhaven.com]

On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:16 -0400, get_iplayer-request at lists.infradead.org
wrote:
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 17:34:22 +0100
> From: Andy Bircumshaw <andy at networkned.co.uk>
> To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Bug Report: --whitespace and colons
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> 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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> Andy Bircumshaw   -   Network Ned   -   Computing services, support &  
> solutions
> 
> Email - andy at networkned.co.uk
> 

I wasn't, but that does indeed cure the problem. Thank you. 

GWC.