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possible bug? forbidden character in windows

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possible bug? forbidden character in windows

Postby juhvd » Fri Feb 05, 2021 5:13 pm

i download a driver.zip...accidentally press \ or /, whichever that one was(i forgot already) then download, the zip turn to folder instead.
just thought it might be a bug because fdm ignore some youtube file name which contain forbidden character such as ? or vertical bar.
win 7 32bit
fdm 6.13
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Re: possible bug? forbidden character in windows

Postby Usher » Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:24 pm

juhvd wrote:i download a driver.zip...accidentally press \ or /, whichever that one was(i forgot already) then download, the zip turn to folder instead.
Oh really? Windows use both \ and / as path separator so "your/file.zip" should be saved as "file.zip" in "your" subfolder. Did you replace the whole filename with a single character?
Renaming and deleting were and still are risky operations, there is no possibility to prevent all actions taken with lack of users' attention.

juhvd wrote: just thought it might be a bug because fdm ignore some youtube file name which contain forbidden character such as ? or vertical bar.
win 7 32bit
fdm 6.13
This behaviour should be fixed, I think. IMHO, FDM should allow only Unicode Plane 0 characters, other characters (including annoyingly abused emojis) should be removed (filtered out) or replaced with underscores.
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Re: possible bug? forbidden character in windows

Postby juhvd » Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:44 pm

its like this dri\or/ver.zip, it turn into folder of dri\ver.zip...full address like this C:\users\user\downloads\dri\ver.zip.
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Re: possible bug? forbidden character in windows

Postby juhvd » Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:28 pm

Usher wrote:
juhvd wrote: just thought it might be a bug because fdm ignore some youtube file name which contain forbidden character such as ? or vertical bar.
win 7 32bit
fdm 6.13
This behaviour should be fixed, I think. IMHO, FDM should allow only Unicode Plane 0 characters, other characters (including annoyingly abused emojis) should be removed (filtered out) or replaced with underscores.
just to clear misunderstand if there any here...what i mean on those is fdm download vid but without those character. as in, it ignored it because its a forbidden character.
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Re: possible bug? forbidden character in windows

Postby Usher » Sat Feb 06, 2021 5:41 pm

juhvd wrote:its like this dri\or/ver.zip, it turn into folder of dri\ver.zip...full address like this C:\users\user\downloads\dri\ver.zip.
So It works exactly as it should do. Nothing to change here.
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Re: possible bug? forbidden character in windows

Postby Alex » Tue Feb 09, 2021 7:08 am

Hello,
I failed to understand anything in this topic.
Please provide details in this form:
1. Steps of what you do
2. The result you get
3. The result you expect (desire) to happen instead.
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Re: possible bug? forbidden character in windows

Postby juhvd » Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:23 pm

Alex wrote:Hello,
I failed to understand anything in this topic.
Please provide details in this form:
1. Steps of what you do
2. The result you get
3. The result you expect (desire) to happen instead.


ok i download driver archive from here https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wn727n/#Driver & then fdm dl download box appear, i change the name a bit & then proceed to press enter but at the same time accidentally pressed \or/ due to my big hand on my small laptop(you know how the layout keep varying between model...etc)

the result i get is as i stated above.
the character is typed in "filename" box & not the "save to" box.

i expect fdm to ignore the character since it ignored those if i download video from youtube. or atleast halt & warn user about those. i mean who know what catastrophe that single user mistake could do. also has not tried with other forbidden character or other os. luckily for me no weird thing happen.
juhvd

Re: possible bug? forbidden character in windows

Postby juhvd » Tue Feb 09, 2021 4:31 pm

pardon my english...you can ignore that stuff about layout, what im trying to say is - different laptop, different keyboard key/button placement, spacing & stuff.

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