#5 Problems with File Names

[Anonymous]

Following bug in 'wxChecksums':

Files existing on drive with the following file names
for which the application was to create a checksum
(md5):

13 - Book 3 - Launching Modern History 1500 – 1800 -
Intro.mp3
24 - World Hegemony Europe’s New Global Role.mp3
25 - Book 5 - Europe’s 20th Century The Era Of
European Civil War - Intro.mp3

At end of checksum creation routine the application
reported 'Invalid files' for the reason that the 'file
not found'.

However it had 'renamed' the files in the 'Invalid
files' listing in this way:

13 - Book 3 - Launching Modern History 1500 1800 -
Intro.mp3
(i.e. this 'rename amounts to an actually removal from
the file name of a 'long dash' character that was used
in the name of the file actually on the drive.)

24 - World Hegemony Europes New Global Role.mp3
(i.e. here the rename amounts to a removal of the
apostrophe in 'Europe's'.)

25 - Book 5 - Europe’s 20th Century The Era Of
European Civil War - Intro.mp3
(i.e. again the apostrophe has been removed.)

Seems that wxChecksum has problems in the coding such
that it will not itself use 'allowed characters' in
file names when it comes to constructing its own table
of files (to process). So, it changes the name of the
file in its own table and hence (of course) then can't
find the files.

Hope this helps.

Many thanks for the app.

Peter Cramond.

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