Obviously, he *can* have a quote in a filename, because he does. However, a wildcard rename should have handled the situation. Agreed, using a filesystem that supports the quotes directly would be easier, but the fact that his *doze box is reading the CD **WITH THE QUOTES** indicates to me that it's a DOS-compatible file format, and therefore copying and renaming the files shouldn't be an issue.
Not necessarily. CD ... read only. Means on a Mac or Linux machine I can copy a CD and it'll read in XP but wont copy over to an XP machine. It has been a while since I've owned a Mac but I have run into this exact problem before. If he has tried everything else, why would something so logical as XP doesn't like quotes offend you? The worst thing about this site (as much as I appreciate the help and enjoy learning all the new stuff and interacting with people as smart or smarter than me) is quite a few people, including myself at times, over think the answers. Usually the most simple answer is it. He's tried all the hard stuff. No one else suggested the obvious.
Perhaps if he used the 8.3 naming convention instead, it would work
Perhaps but "coulda, shoulda, woulda." since it is a CD rom not a whole lot he can do now with it. My suggestion of a Mac or Linux machine still would take care of it if he can copy it over remove the quotes and then copy back to a CD or a USB key.
Just to test my theory I moved an MP3 over to one of my Linux servers and renamed it to the exact file name above and it worked just fine although I don't have speakers on my server it "said" it was playing. When I tried to copy the file to one of my 2003 machines it wouldn't let me. Access denied (even though I can copy a regular test.txt file.) So I went up to my server room and burned a CD of the file. Honestly I didn't even know I had a burner on that server till I went up there. It burned just fine and my Windows XP machine actually sees the file with its quoted name but will not play nor will it copy the file. I get the error message,
Cannot copy 02 "Progress is our mission...": The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. when I try to copy it. If you want screen shots say the word I'll post 'em.
I'd say that unless MrStohler is getting some other error message he just won't be able to access the file from a Windows machine. Of course I could be wrong and way off base but the first thing I said after reading his original post was "It won't copy over because of the quotes, Windows hates quotes in the file name"
Of course there are always around Microsoft's quirks like possibly installing an OS X emulator or some third party software might allow it be copied like a linux/unix machine (cp "filename".mp3 filename.mp3) but he'd have to google that himself. In fact, now that I think about it he could probably download Knoppix or Ubuntu use the bootable OS on CD version, mount the hard drive and copy the file to his drive without quotes and he'd be good.
Just defending my post
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I am all about simplicity. Please, don't take offense at anything I say. I didn't mean any of my posts to put anyone down.
Cheers
Rob
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