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Trouble sending files with commas, colons & other characters

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:04 pm
by Lethagized
I use Filezilla and i've noticed that i get a lot of failed transfers with titles with commas or other characters in. Is this Filezilla's fault or is it something else?

Re: Trouble sending files with commas, colons & other charac

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:27 pm
by MrMajst3r
FATX (Xbox file system) has limitations:
http://www.free60.org/FATX
Attribute Limitation
Maximum Filename Length 0x2A (42)
Maximum Path Length 240 Characters
Maximum File Size 4 GB (4294967296 bytes)
Maximum File Per Directory 0x1000 (4096)
Possible Cluster Sizes 4 KB (0x1000 bytes, 0x8 sectors per cluster), 8 KB (0x2000, 0x10 SPC),16 KB (0x4000, 0x20 SPC), 32 KB (0x8000, 0x40 SPC), 64 KB (0x10000, 0x80 SPC)
File/Folder Name Characters ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!#$%&'()-.@[]^_`{}~(SPACE)

Re: Trouble sending files with commas, colons & other charac

Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 1:58 pm
by Dan Dar3
Colon (:) is not valid in Xbox/Windows filenames (used for drive: notations), change that into a minus (-).

Re: Trouble sending files with commas, colons & other charac

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 3:00 pm
by Lethagized
The weird thing is, i can transfer this file to my other xbox just fine without renaming or shortening the title, but on this xbox it's very fussy about the length of the title or any special characters such as ' or , even.

Why is it i can transfer it to one xbox but not the other?

Re: Trouble sending files with commas, colons & other charac

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 4:52 pm
by Lethagized
I think it's a bios problem. This xbox i'm having problems with is a V1.6 softmodded xbox, and the other xbox that has no problems accepting longer file names etc is Tsop flashed with IND bios.

That's the only reason i can think of. Both running the latest version of XBMC4XOX, FTP'ing from same computer using same version of filezilla.

Re: Trouble sending files with commas, colons & other charac

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 1:41 am
by xman
Lethagized wrote:The weird thing is, i can transfer this file to my other xbox just fine without renaming or shortening the title, but on this xbox it's very fussy about the length of the title or any special characters such as ' or , even.

Why is it i can transfer it to one xbox but not the other?
Look in your XBMC settings and you will find a setting in Network/ Services/ Auto FATX Limiting........and turn it ON. ;)